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| Main Entry: |
crab
[krab]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | complain |
| Synonyms: | bellyache, carp, criticize, fuss, gripe, grumble, grump, moan, nag, whine |
| Main Entry: | churlish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, boorish |
| Synonyms: | base, blunt, brusque, cantankerous*, cloddish, clodhopping, crabbed, crude, crusty, curt, cussed, discourteous, dour, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, harsh, ill-tempered, impolite, loutish, lowbred, mean, miserly, morose, oafish, ornery*, rude, rustic, snippy, sullen, surly, touchy*, ugly, uncivil, uncivilized, uncultured, unmannerly, unneighborly, unpolished, unsociable, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | gentle, nice, pleasant, polite |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | complex |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult to understand |
| Synonyms: | Byzantine, Daedalean, Gordian, abstruse, bewildering, circuitous, complicated, confused, convoluted, crabbed, cryptic, discursive, disordered, disturbing, enigmatic, entangled, excursive, hidden, impenetrable, inscrutable, interwoven, intricate, involved, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, mingled, mixed, muddled, obscure, paradoxical, perplexing, puzzling, rambling, recondite, round-about, sinuous, snarled, sophisticated, tangled, tortuous, undecipherable, unfathomable, winding |
| Notes: | something complex may be well-organized and logically constructed as well as subtle and intricate, while a thing that is complicated will have something irregular, perverse, asymmetrical in addition to fundamental intricacy; complex is more formal and technical (a problem in mathematics is complex) while something like personal life can be complicated |
| Antonyms: | apparent, clear, direct, discernible, easy, evident, obvious, plain |
| Main Entry: | crabby/crabbed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a bad mood |
| Synonyms: | acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy, harsh, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, misanthropic, morose, nasty-tempered, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, snappy, sour, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable |
| Antonyms: | happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cramped |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | congested, overcrowded |
| Synonyms: | awkward, circumscribed, close, closed in, confined, crabbed, crowded, hemmed in, illegible, incommodious, indecipherable, irregular, jammed in, little, minute, narrow, packed, pent, restricted, small, squeezed, tight, tiny, tucked up, two-by-four, uncomfortable |
| Antonyms: | free, open, uncongested, uncramped, uncrowded, uninhibited, unobstructed |
| Main Entry: | cross |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | betray, hinder |
| Synonyms: | backtalk, block, bollix, buck, crab, cramp, crimp, deny, double-cross, flummox, foil, foul up, frustrate, have bone to pick, impede, interfere, knock props out, louse up, obstruct, oppose, resist, sell out, sell*, snafu, stab in the back, stonewall, stump, stymie, take on, take wind out of sails, thwart |
| Antonyms: | abet, aid, assist, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crusty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, often due to old age |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, bluff, blunt, brief, brusque, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, curt, dour, gruff, harsh, ill-humored, irascible, peevish, prickly, sarcastic, saturnine, scornful, short, short-tempered, snappish, snarling, snippety, snippy, splenetic, surly, testy, touchy, vinegary |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | dour |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, grim |
| Synonyms: | bleak, crabbed, dismal, dreary, forbidding, glum, hard, harsh, morose, saturnine, severe, sour, stringent, sulky, sullen, surly, ugly, unfriendly |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, cheery, happy |
| Main Entry: | foil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | circumvent, nip in the bud |
| Synonyms: | baffle, balk, beat, bilk, bollix, buffalo, check, checkmate, counter, crab, cramp, crimp, curb, dash, defeat, disappoint, disconcert, ditch, dodge, duck, elude, faze, foul up, frustrate, get around, give the run-around, give the slip, hang up, hinder, juke, nullify, outwit, prevent, rattle, restrain, run circles around, run rings around, shake, shake off, shuffle off, skip, stop, stymie, throw monkey wrench in, thwart, upset the apple cart |
| Antonyms: | abet, aid, assist, help |
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