prickly

Synonyms

choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, crotchety, fiery, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, irritable, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, quick-tempered, raspy, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snippy, stuffy, testy, waspish;

Near Antonyms

affable, companionable, cordial, extroverted (also extraverted), friendly, genial, gregarious, outgoing, sociable;

agreeable, amiable, good-natured, good-tempered, sweet, well-disposed;

carefree, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, relaxed;

forbearing, long-suffering, obliging, patient, stoic (or stoical), tolerant, uncomplaining, understanding;

Related Words

bearish, bilious, cantankerous, cross-grained, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, dyspeptic, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, off-color (or off-colored), ornery, querulous, snarly, surly;

argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, combative, contentious, disputatious, fractious, fretful, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent;

huffy, pouty, sensitive, short, sulky, sullen, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchy;

Phrases

out of humor, out of sorts;