cantankerous English

Meaning cantankerous meaning

What does cantankerous mean?

cantankerous

— adjective having a difficult and contrary disposition a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady — Dorothy Sayers

— adjective (= bloody-minded) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders — Spectator

Synonyms cantankerous synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as cantankerous?

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quarrelsome

bloody-minded

peevish

ornery

shrewish

crotchety

waspish

surly

pettish

mean

irritable

irascible

grouchy

contentious

wicked

wayward

war-ridden

vixenish

vicious

untoward

unsympathetic

unkindly

unkind

uncooperative

testy

termagant

sullen

stroppy

splenish

splenetic

shabby

scrappy

recalcitrant

perversity

peckish

naughty

nasty

morose

meddlesome

meanspirited

malign

kinky

iracible

illtempered

ill-natured

hurtful

humourless

humorless

humored

harsh

Topics cantankerous topics

What do people use cantankerous to talk about?

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Angry

• What words describe a person who gets angry often or easily?
  have a temper irascible bilious cantankerous choleric cranky grouch hot tempered hot headed ill-tempered irascible irritable easily offended quick-tempered prim prude sensitive thin-skinned touchy

Social behavior Behavior Good, moral Patient

Bad-tempered

• What words describe a person who is often bad-tempered?
  bad-tempered grumpy grouchy disagreeable cantankerous uptight