crotchety
11crotchety — adjective often slightly angry or annoyed: a crotchety old man …
12crotchety — adjective it s the dreadful arthritis that has made him so crotchety Syn: bad tempered, irascible, irritable, grumpy, grouchy, cantankerous, short tempered, tetchy, testy, curmudgeonly, ill tempered, ill humored, ill natured, cross grained,… …
13crotchety — UK [ˈkrɒtʃətɪ] / US [ˈkrɑtʃətɪ] adjective informal someone who is crotchety gets easily annoyed …
14crotchety — crotchetiness, n. /kroch i tee/, adj. 1. given to odd notions, whims, grouchiness, etc. 2. of the nature of a crotchet. [1815 25; CROTCHET + Y1] Syn. 1. fussy, eccentric, grouchy. * * * …
15crotchety — adjective /ˈkɹɒtʃ.ə.tɪ,ˈkɹɑ.tʃɨ.ti/ Cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or fancies …
16crotchety — Synonyms and related words: abnormal, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, arbitrary, bearish, breakaway, cankered, capricious, clashing, conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing,… …
17crotchety — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. eccentric, cranky. See discourtesy. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. eccentric, cantankerous, cranky, odd; see irritable , obstinate 1 , unusual 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. grouchy, irritable,… …
18crotchety — crotch·et·y || krÉ‘tʃətɪ / krÉ’t adj. having unusual ideas, eccentric, whimsical …
19crotchety — adjective bad tempered; irritable. Derivatives crotchetiness noun Origin C19: from sense 2 of crotchet + y1 …
20crotchety — a. Whimsical, fantastic, fantastical, odd, queer, fanciful, capricious, humorsome, wayward, fitful, freakish …
