Synonyms and Antonyms of surly
- went about his chores in a surly huff, totally annoyed that he was stuck at home on this beautiful Saturday
choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, crotchety, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, irritable, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quick-tempered, raspy, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snarky, snippety, snippy, testy, waspish
bearish, bilious, cantankerous, disagreeable, dyspeptic, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, ornery
huffy, sensitive, temperamental, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchy
- the surly receptionist told us we'd have to wait outside in the rain
acid, bearish, bilious, bloody-minded [chiefly British], cantankerous, disagreeable, dyspeptic, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, ornery, splenetic
choleric, crabby, cranky, crotchety, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, querulous
irascible, irritable, peevish, peppery, petulant, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappish, snippy, testy, touchy
argumentative, contentious, contrary, cussed
angry, exasperated, indignant, irate, mad, upset, uptight