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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

easy irritated or offended;

e.g. She got huffy everytime her mother said her full name.

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Similar Words

Arrogant

Assumptive

Brooding

Bumptious

Cavalier

Chesty

Condescending

Cross-grained

Fractious

Fretful

Haughty

Hifalutin

High-handed

High-hat

Highfalutin

Hypersensitive

Imperious

Important

Lofty

Lordly

Masterful

Oversensitive

Overweening

Peremptory

Pompous

Presumptuous

Pretentious

Regimental

Self-asserting

Self-assertive

Self-flattering

Sniffy

Sorehead

Stiff-necked

Stroppy

Supercilious

Superior

Supersensitive

Tetchy

Than

Thin-skinned

Ticklish

Toplofty

Touchy

Uppity

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Opposite Words

Acquiescent

Agreeable

Amiable

Bashful

Carefree

Compliant

Deferential

Demure

Diffident

Easygoing

Good-natured

Good-tempered

Happy-go-lucky

Introverted

Long-suffering

Meek

Modest

Mousy

Obliging

Overmodest

Passive

Quiet

Relaxed

Reserved

Retiring

Self-critical

Self-deprecating

Self-deprecatory

Self-doubting

Sheepish

Shy

Subdued

Submissive

Timid

Unaggressive

Unarrogant

Unassertive

Unassuming

Unconcerned

Understanding

Unobtrusive

Unpretentious

Well-disposed

Yielding

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Related Words

Aggressive

Agonistic

Angry

Annoyed

Apoplectic

Argumentative

Aristocratic

Assaultive

Assured

Authoritarian

Authoritative

Autocratic

Ballistic

Bellicose

Belligerent

Biggety

Bombastic

Bossy

Bothered

Braggart

Brash

Chippy

Choleric

Cocky

Combative

Complacent

Conceited

Condescending

Consequential

Contentious

Controversial

Crabby

Cranky

Cross

Cross-grained

Crotchety

Despotic

Dictatorial

Discordant

Disdainful

Disputatious

Dominant

Domineering

Egocentric

Egotistical

Elitist

Exasperated

Extroverted

Feisty

Fiery

Forward

Furious

Glum

Grouchy

Grumpy

High-hat

Hopping

Horn-mad

Hot

Hubristic

Hypersensitive

Imperious

Impertinent

Important

Impudent

Indignant

Infuriate

Irascible

Irate

Irritable

Irritated

Livid

Mad

Magisterial

Masterful

Militant

Narcissistic

Overbearing

Oversensitive

Overweening

Patronizing

Peevish

Peremptory

Persnickety

Perverse

Petulant

Polemic

Pompous

Pontifical

Potty

Pouty

Prickly

Prideful

Proud

Pugnacious

Quarrelsome

Quick-tempered

Rabid

Raspy

Ratty

Riley

Ritzy

Saucy

Self-applauding

Self-centered

Self-flattering

Self-important

Self-satisfied

Sensitive

Shirty

Short-tempered

Smug

Snappish

Snappy

Snarky

Snippety

Snippy

Snobbish

Snobby

Snooty

Snotty

Sore

Stuck-up

Stuffy

Sulky

Sullen

Supersensitive

Surly

Tempered

Tender

Testy

Toffee

Toffee-nosed

Truculent

Tyrannical

Tyrannous

Uninhibited

Unreserved

Vain

Vainglorious

Warlike

Wasp

Waspish

Wrathful

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