[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cantankerous \cantan"kerous\, a.
   perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. colloq. --
   cantan"kerously, adv. -- cantan"kerousness, n.
   1913 webster

         the cantankerous old maiden aunt.        --thackeray.
   1913 webster cantar
see also:
cantan"kerously cantan"kerousness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

cantankerous
     adj 1: stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate;
            "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about
            demarcation as the shipbuilders"- spectator syn: bloody-minded
     2: having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous
        and venomous-tongued old lady"- dorothy sayers syn: crotchety,
         ornery
see also:
bloody-minded crotchety ornery 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

60 moby thesaurus words for "cantankerous":
   bad-tempered, bearish, bilious, bitchy, cankered, choleric,
   churlish, contrary, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross-grained,
   crotchety, crusty, cussed, difficult, disagreeable, dour,
   dyspeptic, excitable, feisty, fractious, froward, grouchy, grumpy,
   huffish, huffy, ill-conditioned, ill-natured, ill-tempered,
   irascible, irritable, liverish, mean, morose, ornery, peevish,
   perverse, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, snappish, sour, spiteful,
   spleeny, splenetic, stuffy, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, tetchy,
   touchy, ugly, vinegarish, vinegary, waspish, wayward,
   wrongheaded

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