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Showing words for SURLINESS using the English dictionary

9 Letter Words for Surliness

surliness

8 Letter Words for Surliness

sunrises

7 Letter Words for Surliness

insulse, insures, issuers, nisuses, nursles, risuses, runless, rusines, russels, serinus, silenus, silures, sinless, sinuses, sunless, sunrise

6 Letter Words for Surliness

elsins, inless, insure, inures, issuer, issues, liners, lisses, lunier, lunies, nessus, nirles, nisses, nurses, nursle, resins, rinses, rissel, rissle, rusine, russel, sensus, serins, sieurs, silens, silers, silure, sirens, siress, sluses, suisse, unless, uresis, urines, ursine, ussels

5 Letter Words for Surliness

elsin, ensis, ileus, insue, inure, isles, issue, issus, leirs, leiss, lenis, lessn, liens, liers, lieus, liner, lines, lunes, lures, luser, nelis, nirls, nisse, nisus, nurls, nurse, reins, resin, resun, riels, riles, rines, rinse, risen, rises, risus, ruins, rules, runes, ruses, russe, seils, seirs, sensu, serin, siens, sieur, silen, siler, siles, sines, sinus, siren, sires, sises, sissu, slier, sline, sluer, slues, slurs, sluse, snies, snirl, snurl, suers, suine, sunis, suses, unlie, uriel, urine, users, usine

4 Letter Words for Surliness

erin, eris, erns, ires, isle, isls, iure, leir, leis, lens, less, lien, lier, lies, lieu, line, lins, lire, liss, lisu, lues, lune, lure, lurs, ness, nies, nile, nils, nirl, nurl, nurs, rein, riel, ries, rile, rine, rins, rise, ruen, rues, ruin, rule, rune, runs, ruse, russ, seil, seir, seis, sels, sens, sers, sess, sien, sier, sile, sine, sins, sire, sirs, sise, siss, slue, slur, snur, sris, suer, sues, sune, suni, suns, sure, susi, suss, ules, unie, unis, ures, urns, user, uses, ussr

3 Letter Words for Surliness

eir, eli, els, enl, ens, ern, ers, esr, ess, esu, ile, ins, ire, irs, ise, isl, isn, lei, ler, les, leu, lie, lin, lir, lis, lnr, lue, lur, nei, nie, nil, nis, nul, nur, nus, rei, rel, res, rie, rin, rle, rue, run, sei, sel, sen, ser, sie, sil, sin, sir, sis, sle, sri, sse, ssu, sue, sui, sun, sur, sus, ule, uni, unl, uns, ure, urn, urs, use

Definitions for Surliness

[1] churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter.
[2] unfriendly or hostile; menacingly irritable: a surly old lion.
[3] dark or dismal; menacing; threatening: a surly sky.
[4] Obsolete . lordly; arrogant.
[5] sullenly ill-tempered or rude
[6] (of an animal) ill-tempered or refractory
[7] dismal
[8] obsolete arrogant

Words related to Surliness

surlytantrum, impatience, rage, fury, sensitivity, resentment, passion, anger, ire, outburst, tiff, irascibility, snit, irritation, irritability, annoyance, pugnacity, fit, acerbity, wax

Words nearby Surliness

surlysurinam toad, suriname, surinamese, surjection, surjective, surly, surmise, surmount, surmullet, surname, surpass

Origin of Surliness

y1560–70; spelling variant of obsolete sirly lordly, arrogant, equivalent to sir + -ly

Other words from Surliness

sur·li·ly , adverb
sur·li·ness , noun
un·sur·li·ly , adverb
un·sur·li·ness , noun
un·sur·ly , adjective

Word origin for Surliness

yC16: from obsolete sirly haughty; see sir

Synonyms for Surliness

anger, fury, impatience, ire, outburst, passion, rage, resentment, sensitivity, tantrum, acerbity, annoyance, crossness, dander, excitability, fit, fretfulness, furor, heat, huffiness, irascibility, irritability, irritation, miff, peevishness, petulance, pugnacity, snit, sourness, stew, sullenness, tartness, tear, tiff, tizzy, touchiness, wax, bad humor, cantankerousness, grouchiness, hotheadedness, ill-humor, short fuse, slow burn