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Webster 1913 Edition


Petulant

Pet′u-lant

,
Adj.
[L.
petulans
,
-antis
, prop., making slight attacks upon, from a lost dim. of
petere
to fall upon, to attack: cf. F.
pétulant
. See
Petition
.]
1.
Forward; pert; insolent; wanton.
[Obs.]
Burton.
2.
Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable.
Petulant moods.”
Macaulay.
Syn. – Irritable; ill-humored; peevish; cross; fretful; querulous.

Webster 1828 Edition


Petulant

PET'ULANT

,
Adj.
[L. petulans.] Saucy; pert or forward with fretfulness or sourness of temper; as a petulant youth.
1.
Manifesting petulance; proceeding from pettishness; as a petulant demand; a petulant answer.
2.
Wanton; freakish in passion.

Definition 2024


pétulant

pétulant

See also: petulant

French

Adjective

pétulant m (feminine singular pétulante, masculine plural pétulants, feminine plural pétulantes)

  1. exuberant, lively