Meaning of CANTANKEROUS
| Pronunciation: | | kan'tangkurus
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- [adj] having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers
- [adj] (British) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator
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| | Synonyms: | | bloody-minded, crotchety, ill-natured, ornery, stubborn |
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| | Definition: | | \Can*tan"ker*ous\, a.
Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. [Colloq.] --
{Can*tan"ker*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Can*tan"ker*ous*ness}, n.
The cantankerous old maiden aunt. --Thackeray.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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