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What is the adjective for snapping?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb snap which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

snappish
  1. Likely to snap or bite.
  2. Exhibiting irritation or impatience; curt; irascible.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. angry, cranky, cross, grumpy, irascible, irritable, testy, fiery, grouchy, peevish, petulant, ratty, touchy, cantankerous, choleric, crabby, curt, prickly, snappy, brusque, perverse, pettish, splenetic, captious, crotchety, snarky, tetchy, edgy, snippety, snippy, stuffy, waspish, raspy, sharp, short, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered, ill-humoured, ill-humored, crabbed, fractious, surly, chippy, narky, crusty, dyspeptic, huffy, soreheaded … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Ginny felt herself smile, despite her previously snappish mood.”
      “When that happened, which was surprisingly often, she was snappish and disagreeable.”
      “She'd been rude and snappish, but Seth had a couple of times glimpsed a softer side, he'd thought.”
snap
  1. (informal) Done, performed, made, etc. quickly and without deliberation.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. impulsive, spontaneous, abrupt, impromptu, sudden, unconsidered, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared, unrehearsed, unstudied, extemporaneous, hurried, immediate, improvisational, improvised, offhand, quick, extemporary, extempore, instant, offhanded, ad hoc, spur-of-the-moment, off-the-cuff, ad-lib, down and dirty, ad lib, improvisatory, unscripted, ad libitum, makeshift, extemporized, unarranged, extemporised, on-the-spot, off the cuff, thrown together, cobbled together, made-up, automatic, improviso, informal, off the top of your head, improv, autoschediastic, winging it, unthinking, casual, unexpected … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “After the Cubs lost Game One of the 2016 World Series, he made a snap decision to travel to Cleveland to see Game Two in person.”
      “Somehow, he was given credit for a course for merely reading the text and passing a snap exam.”
snapless
  1. Without snap fasteners.
snappable
  1. Capable of being snapped.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Does anyone know what the connectors for the snappable header pins are called?”
snapped
  1. simple past tense and past participle of snap
  2. Synonyms:
      3. changed, fluctuated, vacillated, varied, veered, deviated, differed, morphed, mutated, seesawed, snapt, teetered, wavered, bettered, deteriorated, diminished, reversed, turned around, diverted, worsened, shifted, swung, oscillated, alternated, altered, swayed, wobbled, undulated, tottered, waved, fluttered, vibrated, ebbed and flowed, yo-yoed, swungen, swang, risen and fallen, come and gone, rose and fell, came and went, went up and down, gone up and down, recast, shilly-shallied, switched, interchanged, exchanged, moved, substituted, segued … more
snapping
  1. present participle of snap
  2. Synonyms:
      3. breaking, fracturing, separating, splitting, cracking, popping, splintering, busting, parting, shattering, coming apart, breaking into two, breaking in two, giving way, bursting, smashing, riving, rupturing, fragmenting, disintegrating, severing, shivering, rending, smashing to smithereens, tearing, dismembering, dividing, disrupting, breaking up, blowing out, falling to pieces, falling to bits, fissuring, cleaving, exploding, demolishing, crazing, physically breaking, spalling, damaging, bisecting, gaping, opening, coming undone, breaking apart, crushing, destroying, trashing, perforating, puncturing … more
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