Synonyms and Antonyms of snippy
1
being or characterized by direct, brief, and potentially rude speech or manner
- snippy remarks about the quality of the food at the church picnic
gruff, rough, snappish
candid, direct, forthright, foursquare, frank, free-spoken, open, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, point-blank, straightforward, straight-out
artless, discourteous, disrespectful, impertinent, impolite, inconsiderate, insensitive, rude, tactless, undiplomatic
brief, closemouthed, laconic, reserved, reticent, terse, tight-lipped
earnest, honest, sincere
coarse, crass, crude, low, uncouth, vulgar
civil, considerate, courteous, diplomatic, gracious, polite, politic, smooth, suave, tactful
loquacious, talkative, voluble
long-winded, prolix, verbose
courtly, cultivated, gallant, genteel, polished, refined
2
easily irritated or annoyed
- feeling snippy after a long day of work
choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, crotchety, fiery, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, irritable, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quick-tempered, raspy, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snarky, snippety, stuffy, testy, waspish
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
hot-blooded, passionate
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
