Cantankerous

3 definitions found

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

  Cantankerous \Can*tan"ker*ous\, a.
     Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. [Colloq.] --
     {Can*tan"ker*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Can*tan"ker*ous*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The cantankerous old maiden aunt.        --Thackeray.


     [1913 Webster] Cantar

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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