Synonyms of huffy

huffy

adjective

ˈhə-fē 

1

as in tetchy

easily offended

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tetchy
• sensitive
• irritable
• 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
• stroppy
• choleric
• disagreeable
• raspy
• dyspeptic
• bilious
• stuffy
• cross
• tender
• 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
• uppity
• supercilious
• bumptious
• haughty
• high-and-mighty
• superior
• assumptive
• chesty
• pompous
• pretentious
• high-handed
• uppish
• important
• smug
• presumptuous
• imperious
• domineering
• high-hat
• peremptory
• huffish
• dominant
• masterful
• proud
• highfalutin
• condescending
• presuming
• lordly
• self-assertive
• toplofty
• overweening
• patronizing
• authoritarian
• bossy
• lofty
• impudent
• snooty
• stiff-necked
• snobbish
• magisterial
• dominating
• disdainful
• snobby
• saucy
• self-asserting
• pontifical
• cocky
• boastful
• bombastic
• impertinent
• conceited
• vainglorious
• egocentric
• swaggering
• blustery
• narcissistic
• hubristic
• complacent
• pontificating
• blusterous
• uninhibited
• self-satisfied
• braggy
• vain
• egotistic
• egoistic
• prideful
• braggart
• bragging
• 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

Ben Green’s thumping bass leads to huffy breathing, which leads to bone-snapping drum machine rhythms and an ectoplasmic elastic guitar riff. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2026

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