Meaning of CRANKY
| Pronunciation: | | 'krangkee
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- [adj] easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
- [adj] (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
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| | Synonyms: | | crank, fractious, ill-natured, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, techy, tender, testy, tetchy, tippy, unstable |
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| | Definition: | | \Crank"y\ (-?), a.
1. Full of spirit; crank.
2. Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions;
crotchety. [Colloq.]
3. Unsteady; easy to upset; crank.
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| | Related Terms: | | abnormal, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, arbitrary, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, bearish, beefing, bellyaching, bitching, bitchy, breakaway, cankered, cantankerous, capricious, choleric, churlish, clashing, complaining, complaintful, conflicting, contentious, contradicting, contradictory, contrary, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, crabbed, crabbing, crabby, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, crank, crankish, crazed, crazy, croaking, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cuckoo, cussed, daffy, daft, deviant, deviative, different, differing, difficult, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disappointed, discontented, discordant, discrepant, disgruntled, disharmonious, displeased, disproportionate, dissatisfied, dissident, dissonant, divergent, dotty, eccentric, envious, erratic, exceptional, excitable, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, faultfinding, feisty, fey, flaky, fractious, freakish, froward, funny, grating, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, gruff, grumbling, harebrained, hostile, hot-tempered, huffish, huffy, humorsome, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, ill-humored, immiscible, inaccordant, incompatible, inharmonious, inimical, irascible, irregular, irritable, jangling, jarring, kinky, kooky, maggoty, malcontent, malcontented, mean, moody, motiveless, murmuring, muttering, negative, nonconformist, notional, nutty, odd, oddball, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, ornery, out of accord, out of humor, out of sorts, out of whack, peculiar, peevish, perverse, petulant, queer, querulant, querulous, quick-tempered, quirky, ratty, reactionary, rebellious, recalcitrant, renitent, repugnant, resentful, resistant, restive, restless, revolutionary, screwball, screwy, short-tempered, singular, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, strange, sulky, surly, temperamental, testy, tetchy, touchy, twisted, ugly, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uncongenial, unconventional, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unharmonious, unnatural, unreasonable, unrestrained, unsatisfied, vagarious, vagrant, variant, vinegarish, vinegary, wacky, wanton, waspish, wayward, weird, whimsical, whiny |
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