word of the day: querulous

The word of the day is querulous:

adjective

1. full of complaints; complaining.

2. characterized by or uttered in complaint; peevish: a querulous tone; constant querulous reminders of things to be done.

< Latin querulus, equivalent to quer(ī) to complain (dictionary.com)


"People are made for walking, but we are not very good at it; our backs and arches, like querulous cabinet ministers, at first complain and then resign."

 - Adam Gopnik, "Heaven's gaits: what we do when we walk", 1 September 2014 The New Yorker