| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | quer·u·lous |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  kw r  -ls, kwry- |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Given to complaining; peevish. 2. Expressing a complaint or grievance; grumbling: a querulous voice; querulous comments. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English querulose, litigious, quarrelsome, from Old French querelos, from Late Latin querul sus, querulous, from Latin querulus, from quer , to complain. See kwes- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | queru·lous·ly —ADVERB
queru·lous·ness —NOUN
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