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testy

/ˈtɛsti/

testy adjective: easily annoyed, irritable.

Adjective

testy (comparative testier, superlative testiest)

  1. Easily annoyed, irritable.
  2. Marked by impatience or ill humor.
    • He made testy remarks.
    • Otherwise, we could end up with a repeat of what happened with social media companies after the 2016 election — a collision of Silicon Valley power and Washington ignorance, which resulted in nothing but gridlock and testy hearings.2022 August 24, Kevin Roose, “We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

testy meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

testy in Tamil

பொறுமையற்ற, எரிச்சலடையும், காரசாரமான, உணர்வைக் கிளப்பும்

testy in Urdu

چڑچڑھا, نازک مزاج

testy in Malayalam

tetchy, cantankerous, irritable
മുൻകോപിയായ, ശീഘ്രകോപിയായ, ക്ഷിപ്രക്ഷോഭിയായ, ശീഘ്രക്ഷോഭിയായ, പെട്ടെന്നു കോപിക്കുന്ന, മുൻകോപമുള്ള

testy in Kannada

ಅಸಹನೆಯ, ತಾಳ್ಮೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ, ಕಿರಿಕಿರಿ ಮಾಡುವ, ಸಿಡುಕುವ, ರೇಗುವ

Synonyms of testy

Forms of testy

comparativetestier
superlativetestiest

Origin of testy

Middle English testif (“headstrong”), from Old French testu, from teste (“head”) + -u. Compare modern French tête (“head”), têtu (“stubborn”).

Words formed from testy

Words that rhyme with testy

Questions about testy

What does testy mean?
Testy means easily annoyed, irritable.
What is testy in Tamil?
Testy in Tamil is பொறுமையற்ற, எரிச்சலடையும், காரசாரமான. See Testy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is testy?
Testy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce testy?
Testy is pronounced /ˈtɛsti/.

Words near testy in the dictionary

  1. testudos
  2. testule
  3. testules
  4. testworthiness
  5. testworthy
  6. testy
  7. testæ
  8. tesuji
  9. Tesuque
  10. Tesuques
  11. tesvino

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: testy (page history and authors); testy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); testy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); testy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); testy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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