petulant

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Childishly irritable.
    — Lack of sleep is causing Dave's recent petulant behavior.
  2. Forward; pert; insolent; wanton. obsolete
    — Who hath not like cause to complain, and is not so troubled, that shall fall into the mouths of such men? for many are of so petulant a spleen

词形变化

more petulant comparative most petulant superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
petulantly unpetulant

词源

From Middle French, from Latin petulāns, akin to petō (“to ask for”).
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