Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Given to complaining; peevish.
- adjective Expressing a complaint or grievance; grumbling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Complaining; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur or express dissatisfaction: as, a querulous man.
- Expressing complaint; proceeding from a complaining habit: as, a querulous tone of voice.
- Quarrelsome.
- Synonyms and See
plaintive and petulant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Given to quarreling; quarrelsome.
- adjective Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur.
- adjective Expressing complaint; fretful; whining.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Often
complaining ; suggesting acomplaint inexpression ;fretful ,whining .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective habitually complaining
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It is legitimately hard to decide which of these four points is the most ridiculous. (1) and (2) might charitably be called querulous, demanding a full vector representation of all the heat/energy flows of a schematic representation.
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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It is legitimately hard to decide which of these four points is the most ridiculous. (1) and (2) might charitably be called querulous, demanding a full vector representation of all the heat/energy flows of a schematic representation.
Archive 2009-03-01 EliRabett 2009
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"Don't stand looking any longer, for mercy's sake!" called the querulous voice from the house.
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"Anne!" called a querulous voice down the passage.
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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Suddenly the groom, a kind of querulous shiver in his voice, spoke.
It, and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914
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Her words came so fast that I cannot attempt their semblance here, and her voice rose and fell in a kind of querulous chant to which sometimes she nodded her head, as if she was beating the time.
The Fool Errant Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Servillo's performance at the centre of Paolo Sorrentino's grotesque portrait of former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti, as a kind of querulous, jug-eared gnome with homicidal instincts, was hugely entertaining and alarming.
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Furthermore, not to be picky, but for a book that complains about poor vocabulary skills among digital readers and writers, I couldn't help but notice that on page sixteen he seems to misuse the word "querulous" in place of what sounds like he intended to be a synonym for "inquisitive."
virtualpolitik 2009
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At sight of their other prisoner he chattered in a high querulous falsetto, with puckered brows and troubled, wild-animal eyes.
Chapter 25 2010
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When I started to crawl along the packed gear with which the wagon was laden my mother said in a tired and querulous voice, "Can't you ever be still a minute, Jesse?"
Chapter 12 2010
sera commented on the word querulous
Complaining - like Professor Quirinus Quirrell (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone)
August 13, 2007
itz_chucknorris commented on the word querulous
a philosopher is a man who works with stuff
October 29, 2010
mohitanand commented on the word querulous
habitually complaining
The querulous old woman was beginning to wear down even the happier members of the staff with her ceaseless complaining.
October 12, 2016