Synonyms of huffy

huffy

adjective

ˈhə-fē 

1

as in irritable

easily offended

the comedy is about a huffy actress who loudly protests every perceived insult, no matter how slight

Synonyms & Similar Words

• irritable
• tetchy
• sensitive
• touchy
• ticklish
• thin-skinned
• peevish
• petulant
• snappish
• hypersensitive
• grumpy
• irascible
• oversensitive
• testy
• grouchy
• supersensitive
• waspish
• snippy
• crotchety
• snarky
• pettish
• crabby
• querulous
• cranky
• cantankerous
• surly
• ornery
• curmudgeonly
• disagreeable
• stroppy
• choleric
• raspy
• tender
• dyspeptic
• bilious
• stuffy
• cross
• short-tempered
• ratty
• snippety
• prickly
• perverse
• ill-tempered
• quick-tempered
• cross-grained
• snappy
• ill-humored
• ill-natured
• bearish

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• amiable
• agreeable
• good-natured
• unconcerned
• thick-skinned
• easygoing
• carefree
• relaxed
• well-disposed
• good-tempered
• forbearing
• understanding
• long-suffering
• obliging
• happy-go-lucky

2

as in arrogant

having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude

he's been acting very huffy ever since he was named head of the department

Synonyms & Similar Words

• arrogant
• cavalier
• sniffy
• superior
• uppity
• supercilious
• bumptious
• haughty
• high-and-mighty
• important
• assumptive
• smug
• chesty
• domineering
• pompous
• pretentious
• high-handed
• uppish
• dominant
• imperious
• presumptuous
• masterful
• high-hat
• peremptory
• huffish
• presuming
• authoritarian
• proud
• patronizing
• highfalutin
• condescending
• dominating
• lordly
• self-assertive
• toplofty
• overweening
• bossy
• lofty
• impudent
• snooty
• stiff-necked
• snobbish
• magisterial
• disdainful
• snobby
• saucy
• self-asserting
• pontifical
• boastful
• cocky
• bombastic
• impertinent
• conceited
• vainglorious
• egocentric
• swaggering
• blustery
• narcissistic
• hubristic
• complacent
• pontificating
• vain
• blusterous
• uninhibited
• self-satisfied
• braggy
• egotistic
• prideful
• egoistic
• bragging
• braggart
• self-centered
• self-complacent
• stuck-up
• immodest
• self-conceited
• brash
• extroverted
• unreserved
• self-applauding
• self-pleased
• self-affected
• self-flattering
• self-promoting
• orgulous
• self-loving
• forward

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• humble
• modest
• lowly
• timid
• sheepish
• bashful
• unpretentious
• subdued
• shy
• diffident
• passive
• shrinking
• mousy
• introverted
• demure
• meek
• deferential
• acquiescent
• unassuming
• compliant
• submissive
• unassertive
• unaggressive
• unobtrusive
• unarrogant
• quiet
• yielding
• cringing
• self-critical
• self-doubting
• overmodest
• reserved
• cowering
• retiring

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of huffy

Eleven hours into this 15-hour shift, most of the attending’s best qualities — his pragmatic approach to medicine, his encouragement of young colleagues, his ability to roll with unexpected challenges — have curdled into huffy dismissiveness and defensive blind spots. —Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2026

For example, maybe the subject would act huffy, anticipating that the interactant was going to treat them differently. —Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Mar. 2026

He is seen as favoring Christine Lagarde, head of the European Central Bank, to take over WEF, though her huffy exit this year from a dinner stacked with US government officials may make things awkward. —semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026

The first, rather vacuous season hinges in part on whether the Russells’ neighbor—the huffy, old-money Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski)—will ever cross Sixty-first Street to visit. —Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 11 July 2025

Inevitably all this tumult attracts the attention of a trio of huffy rival confectioners, Slugworth (Paterson Joseph), Prodnose (Matt Lucas), and Fickelgruber (Mathew Baynton). —Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2023