Table of Contents POS
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
THESAURUS

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun surliness has 1 sense

• surliness(n = noun.attribute) biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, temper - a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees"
is a kind of ill nature
has particulars: querulousness
Derived form adjective surly₁

CIDE DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

surliness

abruptness, aggressiveness, bearishness, beastliness, bluntness, boorishness, bouderie, brashness, brusqueness, brusquerie, churlishness, crustiness, curtness, dejection, dumpishness, glumness, grimness, gruffness, grumness, harshness, melancholy, moodiness, moodishness, mopishness, moroseness, nastiness, roughness, severity, sharpness, shortness, sulkiness, sullenness, truculence

For further exploring for "surliness" in Webster Dictionary Online