Signification de "petulant" dans le dictionnaire anglais

ÉTYMOLOGIE DU MOT PETULANT

Via Old French from Latin petulāns bold, from petulāre (unattested) to attack playfully, from petere to assail.

On appelle étymologie la recherche de l'origine des mots et leurs changements structuraux et de signification.

PRONONCIATION DE PETULANT EN ANGLAIS

petulant  [ˈpɛtjʊlənt]

CATÉGORIE GRAMMATICALE DE PETULANT

Petulant est un adjectif.

L'adjectif, c'est le mot adjoint au nom pour le déterminer ou le qualifier.

QUE SIGNIFIE PETULANT EN ANGLAIS

Contrariété

Annoyance

L'irritation est un état mental désagréable qui se caractérise par des effets tels que l'irritation et la distraction de la pensée consciente. Cela peut conduire à des émotions comme la frustration et la colère. La propriété d'être facilement agacé s'appelle irritabilité.

Annoyance is an unpleasant mental state that is characterized by such effects as irritation and distraction from one's conscious thinking. It can lead to emotions such as frustration and anger. The property of being easily annoyed is called irritability.

définition de petulant dans le dictionnaire anglais

La définition de petulant dans le dictionnaire est irritable, impatient, ou maussade d'une manière cruelle ou capricieuse.

SYNONYMES DE «PETULANT» EN ANGLAIS

Les mots suivants dans le dictionnaire anglais ont une signification proche ou identique à celle du mot «petulant» et appartiennent à la même catégorie grammaticale.

synonymes en anglais de petulant

bad-tempered · captious · cavilling · crabbed · cross · crusty · fault-finding · fretful · huffy · ill-humoured · impatient · irritable · moody · peevish · perverse · pouting · querulous · ratty · snappish · sour · sulky · sullen · ungracious · waspish

TRADUCTION DE PETULANT

Découvrez la traduction de petulant dans 25 langues grâce à notre traducteur anglais multilingue.

Dans cette section, les traductions de petulant dans d'autres langues ont été obtenues par traduction automatique statistique, où l'unité essentielle de la traduction est le mot «petulant» en anglais.

• Traducteur Français - chinois: 使小性子的
• Traducteur Français - espagnol: malhumorado
• anglais: petulant
• Traducteur Français - hindi: ढीठ
• Traducteur Français - arabe: مشاكس
• Traducteur Français - russe: раздражительный
• Traducteur Français - portugais: petulante
• Traducteur Français - bengali: প্রগল্ভ
• Traducteur Français - français: irritable
• Traducteur Français - malaisien: Petulant
• Traducteur Français - allemand: gereizt
• Traducteur Français - japonais: 短気な
• Traducteur Français - coréen: 성마른
• Traducteur Français - javanais: Petulant
• Traducteur Français - vietnamien: hay giận
• Traducteur Français - tamoul: வெடுவெடுப்பான
• Traducteur Français - marathi: चिडखोर
• Traducteur Français - turc: huysuz
• Traducteur Français - italien: irritabile
• Traducteur Français - polonais: rozdrażniony
• Traducteur Français - ukrainien: дратівливий
• Traducteur Français - roumain: iritabil
• Traducteur Français - grec: petulant
• Traducteur Français - afrikaans: dartel
• Traducteur Français - suédois: petulant
• Traducteur Français - norvégien: petulant

2 CITATIONS EN ANGLAIS AVEC «PETULANT»

Citations et phrases célèbres avec le mot petulant.

1

Rory Bremner

When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened - was it just the arrogance of power? - that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism.

2

Jenna Fischer

Well, I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.

10 LIVRES EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «PETULANT»

Découvrez l'usage de petulant dans la sélection bibliographique suivante. Des livres en rapport avec petulant et de courts extraits de ceux-ci pour replacer dans son contexte son utilisation littéraire.

Lady with a Past: A Petulant French Sculptor, His Quest for ...

Timed to the 125th anniversary of the statue, Mitchell's book tells the real, unvarnished story of how Lady Liberty, beacon to the world, came to be.Elizabeth Mitchell is the author of "Three Strides Before the Wire: The Dark and Beautiful ...

Elizabeth Mitchell, 2011

Our Dramatic Heritage: The eighteenth century

only with singing and drinking — what they may have done by this time I know not; but Petulant and he were upon quarrelling as I came by. MRS. MILLAMANT. Well, if Mirabell should not make a good husband, I am a lost thing, — for I find I ...

Philip George Hill, 1987

The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth ...

PETULANT. Pass on Witwoud.-—Harkee by this light, his relations: two coheiresses, his cousins, and an old aunt that loves caterwauling better than a eonventicle. WITWOUD. Ha, ha, ha, I had a mind to see howthe-rogue would come ofii Ha, ...

J. Douglas Canfield, Maja-Lisa von Sneidern, 2003

The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early ...

PETULANT. Pass on Witwoud.—Harkee by this light, his relations: two coheiresses, his cousins, and an old aunt that loves caterwauling better than a conventicle. W/ITWGUD. Ha, ha, ha, I had a mind to see how the rogue would come off.

J. Douglas Canfield, Maja-Lisa von Sneidern, 2001

The Way of the World and Other Plays

PETULANT. Enough, let 'em trundle. Anger helps complexion, saves paint. FAINALL. This continence is all dissembled; this is in order to have something to brag of the next time he makes court to Millamant, and swear he has abandoned the ...

William Congreve, 2011

The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and ...

I believe he waits for himself now, he is so long a-coming. Oh, I ask his pardon. Enter Petulant. BETTY. Sir, the coach stays. PETULANT. Well, well, I come. 'Sbud ,* a man had as good be a professed midwife as a professed whoremaster, at this  ...

Brian Corman, 2013

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms

Lewis) Petulant usually suggests the sulkiness of a spoiled child as well as peevishness and capricious impatience <as he had no means of confuting his nephew, all he could do ... was to utter petulant remarks on his powerlessness to appear ...

Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984

The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology

L. im- (in), on ; petert, to fall, fly, seek. petulant. (L.) L. petulant-, stem of petulant, forward, pert, ready to attack. - \~petirt, to attack. repeat. (F. - L.) Formerly repttt. - F . repeter. Cot - L. re-petere, to attack again, reseek, repeat Der. repet-it-ion.

Walter W. Skeat, 1993

Digit Eyes

The void made as if to completely disavow this new schema as well, but the petulant child who wanted control had other ideas. L¤ L¤ L¤ L¤ L¤ L¤ L¤ L¤ L¤ L ¤ L¤ L¤ L¤ L¤ L¤ L¤ L¤.... it fired a long stream of them into the void. It had surmised ...

Timothy Linnomme

British theatre: comprising tragedies, comedies, operas, and ...

You are very cruel, Petulant. Pet. All's one, let it pass — I have a humour to be cruel. Mir. I hope they are not persons of condition that vim use at this rate. Pet. Condition! condition's a dried fig, if I am not in humour — By this hand, if they were ...

Owen Williams, 1831

10 ACTUALITÉS CONTENANT LE TERME «PETULANT»

Découvrez de quoi on parle dans les médias nationaux et internationaux et comment le terme petulant est employé dans le contexte des actualités suivantes.

Buckley: Martinez bares soul with HOF speech

The off-the-mound Martinez was a banquet of emotions, ranging from goofy to petulant, playful to grudge-minded, and hilariously, memorably ... «Boston Herald, juil 15»

The Strain: "Fort Defiance" Review

Charles comes across as more petulant brat than tortured child, and it's doing a disservice to the character. Kevin Durand Season 2 Interview ... «IGN, juil 15»

'Poldark' Recap: Season 1, Part 6

You can see in Andrew's still-having-anger-management-issues eyes that he wants to do more to Verity's petulant brother, but he keeps his ... «Wall Street Journal, juil 15»

Sheep won't leap, but teach responsibility

Other sheep completed the short obstacle course of as they completed all tasks in the sheep show: with petulant baahing. Confronted with a ... «The Recorder, juil 15»

Is this a Trotskyite revolution or more scaremongering by Labour's …

Or it's a pile of rancid old cobblers peddled by a militant tendency on Labour's far right, whose particular militancy lies in the petulant refusal to ... «The Independent, juil 15»

Ray Davies review – cabaret ringmaster is frail but fabulous

London, like a petulant teenager, is rebelling against Ray Davies. Following a torrentially unsunny afternoon and with forecasts promising the ... «The Guardian, juil 15»

Dannevirke: Gritty show exposes realities of ageing

A last-minute replacement for the role, McKay has made it his own, right down to the physical peculiarities and his sometimes petulant child-like ... «Hawke's Bay Today, juil 15»

Both Ferraris overtake Mercedes in thrilling start

Petulant child. Jason Raj: Will Lewis get a penalty for that? 'Causing a collision'? Adam Ashford: Do my eyes deceive me? BOTH MCLARENS ARE IN THE ... «BBC Sport, juil 15»

Dublin run out of road after Deise up the ante

Not that this should excuse his petulant retaliation - a pure act of frustration on a day when Dublin's centre-back was never allowed dominate as ... «Herald, juil 15»

Strategy for a future president

Petulant Republicans can caterwaul all they want about “not looking back,” but when you're faced with an economy in crisis, a bunch of losing ... «The Star Beacon, juil 15»