adjective
- easily annoyed or irritated; impatient and bad-tempered
Examples
- The professor became testy when students kept interrupting his lecture.
- She gets testy when she’s hungry and needs to eat something.
- His testy response showed he was clearly frustrated with the situation.
- The customer grew increasingly testy as the wait time extended.
- Don’t be so testy – I was just asking a simple question.
- The heat made everyone testy and short-tempered during the meeting.