ratchety
- adjective
- Informal
:
irritable
- Lack of coffee in the morning always makes me feel a bit ratchety at work.
Examples
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The children knew to avoid their ratchety neighbor when he was working in the yard.
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After a long day without rest, she became quite ratchety and snapped at her friends.
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She was feeling quite ratchety after a long day at work.
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Why is he so ratchety today?
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After a long day at the office, she became ratchety and snapped at her coworkers.
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Everyone tiptoed around the ratchety woman next door, especially on her bad days.
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If I don't get my morning coffee, I tend to feel a bit ratchety and short-tempered.
Synonyms
117
4.2
Easily annoyed and upset when tired or hungry
32
3.7
Quick to become annoyed or angry
24
5.4
Feeling easily annoyed and in a bad mood
22
8.5
Being bad-tempered and stubborn, often hard to deal with
19
8.2
Acting easily annoyed and impatient about small things
18
9.6
Quick to become annoyed and show a bad mood
9
8.6
Gets angry easily and often argues with people
6
8.8
Often in a bad mood and easily annoyed by small things
5
8.5
Rude and unkind in a way that upsets people
5
8.6
Quick to become angry, often at small things
4
4.2
Quick to get angry or easily annoyed
4
5.7
Easily annoyed and quick to get angry
2
9.1
Gets angry easily about small things
1
6.0
To become angry quickly and easily
1
9.8
Easily annoyed and likely to argue or be unhelpful
1
9.7
Feeling annoyed and in a bad mood
1
9.9
Easily annoyed and quick to complain about small things
Becoming easily annoyed and acting in a bad-tempered way
Being a little angry and easily annoyed with people
Antonyms
How Irritable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ratchety is linked to the tool ratchet, which makes quick, harsh clicks. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine a person's mood making short, sharp snaps like that tool, so ratchety means 'bad-tempered' or easily annoyed.