Found 3 hits - Term: cantankerous, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [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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