cantankerous
11cantankerous — can|tan|ker|ous [kænˈtæŋkərəs] adj [Date: 1700 1800; Origin: Perhaps from conteck quarreling (13 17 centuries)] bad tempered and complaining a lot ▪ a cantankerous old man …
12cantankerous — [18] Cantankerous is a rather mysterious word. It first appears in the 1770s, and the earliest known reference to it is in Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer 1772: ‘There’s not a more bitter cantanckerous road in all christendom’. Its… …
13cantankerous — adjective bad tempered and complaining a lot: a cantankerous old man cantankerously adverb cantankerousness noun (U) …
14cantankerous — /kænˈtæŋkərəs / (say kan tangkuhruhs) adjective ill natured; quarrelsome; perverse or contrary, as in disposition: *He was being defied on all sides, and was becoming cantankerous about it. –frank hardy, 1950. {? from Middle English contek… …
15cantankerous — [18] Cantankerous is a rather mysterious word. It first appears in the 1770s, and the earliest known reference to it is in Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer 1772: ‘There’s not a more bitter cantanckerous road in all christendom’. Its… …
16cantankerous crotchety ornery — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …
17cantankerous — Synonyms and related words: bad tempered, bearish, bilious, bitchy, cankered, choleric, churlish, contrary, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross grained, crotchety, crusty, cussed, difficult, disagreeable, dour, dyspeptic, excitable, feisty,… …
18cantankerous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. cross, ill natured. See irascibility. Ant., pleasant, good natured. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. peevish, quarrelsome, grouchy; see critical 2 , irritable , mean 3 , obstinate . III (Roget s 3… …
19cantankerous — can|tan|ker|ous [ kæn tæŋkərəs ] adjective always complaining or arguing and easily annoyed …
20cantankerous — can·tan·ker·ous || kæn tæŋkÉ™rÉ™s adj. irritable, contentious …
