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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, crabby |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, bearish, captious, choleric, contrary, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety, crusty, disagreeable, dour, grouchy, grumpy*, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, irascible, irritable, morose, obstinate, ornery*, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, snappish, sour, stuffy, testy, vinegarish, vinegary |
| Antonyms: | easy, good-natured, happy, nice, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boorish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, awkward |
| Synonyms: | bad-mannered, barbaric, bearish, cantankerous, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, coarse, countrified, gross*, gruff, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, inurbane, loud, loutish, lowbred, oafish, ornery, out-of-line, out-of-order, provincial, rough, rude, rustic, swinish, tasteless, ugly, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unpoised, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | charming, cultured, exciting, polite, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | captious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very critical |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, cantankerous, carping, caviling, cavillous, censorious, contrary, crabby, cross, demanding, deprecating, disparaging, exacting, exceptive, fault-finding, finicky, hypercritical, irritable, nagging, nit-picking, overcritical, peevish, perverse, petulant, sarcastic, severe, testy, touchy |
| Antonyms: | commendatory, complimentary, encouraging, flattering, laudatory, praising |
| 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: | combative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aggressive |
| Synonyms: | antagonistic, bellicose, belligerent, cantankerous, contentious, cussed, energetic, fire-eating, gladiatorial, hawkish, militant, ornery*, pugnacious, quarrelsome, ructious, scrappy, strenuous, trigger-happy, truculent, warlike, warring |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, compromising, peaceful, peaceloving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cranky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in bad mood |
| Synonyms: | bad-humored, bearish, cantankerous, choleric, crabby, cross, crotchety, cussed, disagreeable, got up on wrong side of bed, grouchy, grumpy, hot-tempered, ill-humored, irascible, irritable, like a bear, mean, ornery*, out of sorts, perverse, quick-tempered, ratty, snappish, tetchy, ugly, vinegary |
| Antonyms: | amiable, cheerful, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cross |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry; in a bad mood |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, cantankerous, captious, caviling, choleric, churlish, crabby, cranky, crotchety, crusty, disagreeable, faultfinding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, impatient, irascible, irritable, jumpy, out of humor, peeved, peevish, pettish, petulant, put out, querulous, quick-tempered, ratty, short, snappy, splenetic, sullen, surly, testy, tetchy, touchy, vexed, waspish |
| Antonyms: | animated, cheerful, happy, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | crotchety |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, often due to old age |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bad-tempered, bearish, cantankerous, contrary, crabby, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, curmudgeonly, difficult, disagreeable, eccentric, fractious, grouchy, grumpy, irritable, obstinate, obstreperous, odd, ornery*, peevish, queer, surly, testy, unusual, vinegary, waspish, waspy |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, pleasant |
* = 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 |
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