Definition of querulous in English:

querulous

adjective ˈkwɛrʊləsˈkwɛrjʊləsˈkwɛr(j)ələs

Complaining in a rather petulant or whining manner.
she became querulous and demanding
Example sentencesExamples
- His urbanely crinkly face oozes disapproval; his querulous voice is like a fingernail at a scab.
- Smeared and cross-hatched, the objective correlative here is adroitly drawn out, counterpointed throughout the poem by the woman's querulous responses.
- ‘Gentlemen,’ the coroner was addressing the jurors in his querulous voice.
- This anonymity underlines the fact that Bennett based them quite closely on his own parents, ‘except that the wife is more querulous than my mother and the husband less gentle than my father.’
- Her desire to have it all ways at once - to be utterly independent because unconditionally supported by the tax-payers - illustrates her kind of querulous and irresponsible sense of entitlement.
- As with all artists, it is really about an enduring, probing, and somewhat querulous relationship with the medium he has settled down with: the paintbrush, paint, and canvas.
- But there are querulous voices, conflicting histories, and disputed landscapes.
- I also like Mill's querulous intolerance of the conformist pressure of orthodoxy and his impatience with unthoughtfulness.
- He turned into a Dublin ‘character‘: a querulous, quarrelsome countryman with a sharp tongue and an axe to grind.’
- His mates are all out of the remake of Spinal Tap; his singing voice may be querulous, but his songs are close to brilliant.
- However, she knew all about cajoling the authorities, a body of querulous, middle-aged doctors who felt that a woman's place was in the home and not working with stinking, wounded soldiers.
- But Nietzsche spurns all our querulous wheedlings, and wonders how in our ‘constant fluttering around the single flame of vanity… an honest and pure urge for truth could have arisen among men’.
- Must poetry always be difficult to understand, asks another querulous voice; the poet's response, to the effect that poetry is a sort of sculpture carved from the stone of language, falls upon deafness.
- As a professional, for example, Dr. Sermond presides with creeping, midlife ennui over a querulous clientele to whom he gives little more than amused compassion-much of it arising from his own seeming lack of problems.
- I usually skip Checkpoint on National at five for the reasons alluded to above and also because I dislike its sometimes whiny, querulous tone.
- He is thereby reduced to the status of a child, though a spoiled child with the physical capabilities of a man: petulant, demanding, querulous, self-centered, and violent if he doesn't get his own way.
- The querulous critic who scolds it as he would a spoiled child, has not learned the primer of politics.
- Here, the forest is full of spectacular revelations about the power of renewal in nature which is set against a querulous, nagging, domestic voice that intrudes upon the peace.
- Interspersed among these episodes, on the other side of the stage, we see a querulous old man confronting an impatient, offensive nurse.
- Another was fear of female sexual urges and several Victorian doctors wrote querulous treatises warning that if women gave way to ‘libidinous excesses’ they risked ill health or even mental collapse.
Synonyms
petulant, complaining, pettish, touchy, testy, tetchy, waspish, prickly, crusty, peppery, fractious, fretful, irritable, cross, crabbed, crabby, crotchety, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, miserable, morose, on edge, edgy, impatient, bitter, moody, in a bad mood, grumpy, huffy, scratchy, out of sorts, out of temper, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, sullen, surly, sulky, sour, churlish, bilious, liverish, dyspeptic, splenetic, choleric
informal snappish, snappy, chippy, grouchy, cranky, whingeing, whingy
British informal narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head
North American informal sorehead, soreheaded, peckish
Australian/New Zealand informal snaky
informal, dated miffy

Derivatives

querulously

adverb ˈkwɛrjʊləsliˈkwɛrʊləsliˈkwɛrələsli

Someone demanded querulously from the back, ‘But how do you know they're unwanted until you try?’
Example sentencesExamples
- Vaudevillish, too, are the principals, Nat, an old Jew, and Midge, an aged black man, who keep meeting, garrulously and querulously (but symbiotically underneath), on a bench in Central Park.
- Ever since the 1950s film Quatermass, science fiction authors and directors have querulously pondered: what if we sent men into space - and they brought something back?
- Feminists offer tepid support for the government's response to terrorism on an abstract level but querulously criticize the practice of the war.
- Yet those who have achieved far less have been honoured, so it's with some legitimacy that Stewart has been grumbling that he hasn't received so much as an OBE for his work, saying querulously: ‘I don't know why I haven't got any honour.

querulousness

noun ˈkwɛrjʊləsnəsˈkwɛrʊləsnəsˈkwɛrələsnəs

We studiously avoided that tone of spoiled and bored querulousness for which colonials were infamous.
Example sentencesExamples
- He manages an earnest tone to his voice with just a touch of querulousness that suggests he'd be affronted that anyone could even think that he might not be telling the truth.
- There is no reason whatever to suppose that the judge's querulousness with counsel has become an inability impartially to assess the case.
- Nothing is more predictable than the behaviour of the drinking alcoholic - the querulousness, the delusions, the remorse, the dreams that are talked about so often and acted upon so rarely.
- No wonder that the British have changed in character, their sturdy independence replaced with passivity, querulousness, or even, at the lower reaches of society, a sullen resentment that not enough has been or is being done for them.

Origin

Late 15th century: from late Latin querulosus, from Latin querulus, from queri 'complain'.

Definition of querulous in US English:

querulous

adjectiveˈkwɛr(j)ələsˈkwer(y)ələs

Complaining in a petulant or whining manner.
she became querulous and demanding
Example sentencesExamples
- I also like Mill's querulous intolerance of the conformist pressure of orthodoxy and his impatience with unthoughtfulness.
- His mates are all out of the remake of Spinal Tap; his singing voice may be querulous, but his songs are close to brilliant.
- However, she knew all about cajoling the authorities, a body of querulous, middle-aged doctors who felt that a woman's place was in the home and not working with stinking, wounded soldiers.
- Smeared and cross-hatched, the objective correlative here is adroitly drawn out, counterpointed throughout the poem by the woman's querulous responses.
- The querulous critic who scolds it as he would a spoiled child, has not learned the primer of politics.
- Another was fear of female sexual urges and several Victorian doctors wrote querulous treatises warning that if women gave way to ‘libidinous excesses’ they risked ill health or even mental collapse.
- Must poetry always be difficult to understand, asks another querulous voice; the poet's response, to the effect that poetry is a sort of sculpture carved from the stone of language, falls upon deafness.
- This anonymity underlines the fact that Bennett based them quite closely on his own parents, ‘except that the wife is more querulous than my mother and the husband less gentle than my father.’
- ‘Gentlemen,’ the coroner was addressing the jurors in his querulous voice.
- As a professional, for example, Dr. Sermond presides with creeping, midlife ennui over a querulous clientele to whom he gives little more than amused compassion-much of it arising from his own seeming lack of problems.
- Here, the forest is full of spectacular revelations about the power of renewal in nature which is set against a querulous, nagging, domestic voice that intrudes upon the peace.
- But there are querulous voices, conflicting histories, and disputed landscapes.
- I usually skip Checkpoint on National at five for the reasons alluded to above and also because I dislike its sometimes whiny, querulous tone.
- As with all artists, it is really about an enduring, probing, and somewhat querulous relationship with the medium he has settled down with: the paintbrush, paint, and canvas.
- He turned into a Dublin ‘character‘: a querulous, quarrelsome countryman with a sharp tongue and an axe to grind.’
- His urbanely crinkly face oozes disapproval; his querulous voice is like a fingernail at a scab.
- He is thereby reduced to the status of a child, though a spoiled child with the physical capabilities of a man: petulant, demanding, querulous, self-centered, and violent if he doesn't get his own way.
- Her desire to have it all ways at once - to be utterly independent because unconditionally supported by the tax-payers - illustrates her kind of querulous and irresponsible sense of entitlement.
- Interspersed among these episodes, on the other side of the stage, we see a querulous old man confronting an impatient, offensive nurse.
- But Nietzsche spurns all our querulous wheedlings, and wonders how in our ‘constant fluttering around the single flame of vanity… an honest and pure urge for truth could have arisen among men’.
Synonyms
petulant, complaining, pettish, touchy, testy, tetchy, waspish, prickly, crusty, peppery, fractious, fretful, irritable, cross, crabbed, crabby, crotchety, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, miserable, morose, on edge, edgy, impatient, bitter, moody, in a bad mood, grumpy, huffy, scratchy, out of sorts, out of temper, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, sullen, surly, sulky, sour, churlish, bilious, liverish, dyspeptic, splenetic, choleric

Origin

Late 15th century: from late Latin querulosus, from Latin querulus, from queri ‘complain’.

单词	querulous
释义	Definition of querulous in English: querulous adjective ˈkwɛrʊləsˈkwɛrjʊləsˈkwɛr(j)ələs Complaining in a rather petulant or whining manner. she became querulous and demanding Example sentencesExamples His urbanely crinkly face oozes disapproval; his querulous voice is like a fingernail at a scab. Smeared and cross-hatched, the objective correlative here is adroitly drawn out, counterpointed throughout the poem by the woman's querulous responses. ‘Gentlemen,’ the coroner was addressing the jurors in his querulous voice. This anonymity underlines the fact that Bennett based them quite closely on his own parents, ‘except that the wife is more querulous than my mother and the husband less gentle than my father.’ Her desire to have it all ways at once - to be utterly independent because unconditionally supported by the tax-payers - illustrates her kind of querulous and irresponsible sense of entitlement. As with all artists, it is really about an enduring, probing, and somewhat querulous relationship with the medium he has settled down with: the paintbrush, paint, and canvas. But there are querulous voices, conflicting histories, and disputed landscapes. I also like Mill's querulous intolerance of the conformist pressure of orthodoxy and his impatience with unthoughtfulness. He turned into a Dublin ‘character‘: a querulous, quarrelsome countryman with a sharp tongue and an axe to grind.’ His mates are all out of the remake of Spinal Tap; his singing voice may be querulous, but his songs are close to brilliant. However, she knew all about cajoling the authorities, a body of querulous, middle-aged doctors who felt that a woman's place was in the home and not working with stinking, wounded soldiers. But Nietzsche spurns all our querulous wheedlings, and wonders how in our ‘constant fluttering around the single flame of vanity… an honest and pure urge for truth could have arisen among men’. Must poetry always be difficult to understand, asks another querulous voice; the poet's response, to the effect that poetry is a sort of sculpture carved from the stone of language, falls upon deafness. As a professional, for example, Dr. Sermond presides with creeping, midlife ennui over a querulous clientele to whom he gives little more than amused compassion-much of it arising from his own seeming lack of problems. I usually skip Checkpoint on National at five for the reasons alluded to above and also because I dislike its sometimes whiny, querulous tone. He is thereby reduced to the status of a child, though a spoiled child with the physical capabilities of a man: petulant, demanding, querulous, self-centered, and violent if he doesn't get his own way. The querulous critic who scolds it as he would a spoiled child, has not learned the primer of politics. Here, the forest is full of spectacular revelations about the power of renewal in nature which is set against a querulous, nagging, domestic voice that intrudes upon the peace. Interspersed among these episodes, on the other side of the stage, we see a querulous old man confronting an impatient, offensive nurse. Another was fear of female sexual urges and several Victorian doctors wrote querulous treatises warning that if women gave way to ‘libidinous excesses’ they risked ill health or even mental collapse. Synonyms petulant, complaining, pettish, touchy, testy, tetchy, waspish, prickly, crusty, peppery, fractious, fretful, irritable, cross, crabbed, crabby, crotchety, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, miserable, morose, on edge, edgy, impatient, bitter, moody, in a bad mood, grumpy, huffy, scratchy, out of sorts, out of temper, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, sullen, surly, sulky, sour, churlish, bilious, liverish, dyspeptic, splenetic, choleric informal snappish, snappy, chippy, grouchy, cranky, whingeing, whingy British informal narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head North American informal sorehead, soreheaded, peckish Australian/New Zealand informal snaky informal, dated miffy Derivatives querulously adverb ˈkwɛrjʊləsliˈkwɛrʊləsliˈkwɛrələsli Someone demanded querulously from the back, ‘But how do you know they're unwanted until you try?’ Example sentencesExamples Vaudevillish, too, are the principals, Nat, an old Jew, and Midge, an aged black man, who keep meeting, garrulously and querulously (but symbiotically underneath), on a bench in Central Park. Ever since the 1950s film Quatermass, science fiction authors and directors have querulously pondered: what if we sent men into space - and they brought something back? Feminists offer tepid support for the government's response to terrorism on an abstract level but querulously criticize the practice of the war. Yet those who have achieved far less have been honoured, so it's with some legitimacy that Stewart has been grumbling that he hasn't received so much as an OBE for his work, saying querulously: ‘I don't know why I haven't got any honour. querulousness noun ˈkwɛrjʊləsnəsˈkwɛrʊləsnəsˈkwɛrələsnəs We studiously avoided that tone of spoiled and bored querulousness for which colonials were infamous. Example sentencesExamples He manages an earnest tone to his voice with just a touch of querulousness that suggests he'd be affronted that anyone could even think that he might not be telling the truth. There is no reason whatever to suppose that the judge's querulousness with counsel has become an inability impartially to assess the case. Nothing is more predictable than the behaviour of the drinking alcoholic - the querulousness, the delusions, the remorse, the dreams that are talked about so often and acted upon so rarely. No wonder that the British have changed in character, their sturdy independence replaced with passivity, querulousness, or even, at the lower reaches of society, a sullen resentment that not enough has been or is being done for them. Origin Late 15th century: from late Latin querulosus, from Latin querulus, from queri 'complain'. Definition of querulous in US English: querulous adjectiveˈkwɛr(j)ələsˈkwer(y)ələs Complaining in a petulant or whining manner. she became querulous and demanding Example sentencesExamples I also like Mill's querulous intolerance of the conformist pressure of orthodoxy and his impatience with unthoughtfulness. His mates are all out of the remake of Spinal Tap; his singing voice may be querulous, but his songs are close to brilliant. However, she knew all about cajoling the authorities, a body of querulous, middle-aged doctors who felt that a woman's place was in the home and not working with stinking, wounded soldiers. Smeared and cross-hatched, the objective correlative here is adroitly drawn out, counterpointed throughout the poem by the woman's querulous responses. The querulous critic who scolds it as he would a spoiled child, has not learned the primer of politics. Another was fear of female sexual urges and several Victorian doctors wrote querulous treatises warning that if women gave way to ‘libidinous excesses’ they risked ill health or even mental collapse. Must poetry always be difficult to understand, asks another querulous voice; the poet's response, to the effect that poetry is a sort of sculpture carved from the stone of language, falls upon deafness. This anonymity underlines the fact that Bennett based them quite closely on his own parents, ‘except that the wife is more querulous than my mother and the husband less gentle than my father.’ ‘Gentlemen,’ the coroner was addressing the jurors in his querulous voice. As a professional, for example, Dr. Sermond presides with creeping, midlife ennui over a querulous clientele to whom he gives little more than amused compassion-much of it arising from his own seeming lack of problems. Here, the forest is full of spectacular revelations about the power of renewal in nature which is set against a querulous, nagging, domestic voice that intrudes upon the peace. But there are querulous voices, conflicting histories, and disputed landscapes. I usually skip Checkpoint on National at five for the reasons alluded to above and also because I dislike its sometimes whiny, querulous tone. As with all artists, it is really about an enduring, probing, and somewhat querulous relationship with the medium he has settled down with: the paintbrush, paint, and canvas. He turned into a Dublin ‘character‘: a querulous, quarrelsome countryman with a sharp tongue and an axe to grind.’ His urbanely crinkly face oozes disapproval; his querulous voice is like a fingernail at a scab. He is thereby reduced to the status of a child, though a spoiled child with the physical capabilities of a man: petulant, demanding, querulous, self-centered, and violent if he doesn't get his own way. Her desire to have it all ways at once - to be utterly independent because unconditionally supported by the tax-payers - illustrates her kind of querulous and irresponsible sense of entitlement. Interspersed among these episodes, on the other side of the stage, we see a querulous old man confronting an impatient, offensive nurse. But Nietzsche spurns all our querulous wheedlings, and wonders how in our ‘constant fluttering around the single flame of vanity… an honest and pure urge for truth could have arisen among men’. Synonyms petulant, complaining, pettish, touchy, testy, tetchy, waspish, prickly, crusty, peppery, fractious, fretful, irritable, cross, crabbed, crabby, crotchety, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, miserable, morose, on edge, edgy, impatient, bitter, moody, in a bad mood, grumpy, huffy, scratchy, out of sorts, out of temper, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, sullen, surly, sulky, sour, churlish, bilious, liverish, dyspeptic, splenetic, choleric Origin Late 15th century: from late Latin querulosus, from Latin querulus, from queri ‘complain’.
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