crabbier

ADJECTIVE

in a bad mood

Synonyms

WEAK

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

WEAK

happy

ADJECTIVE

irritable

Synonyms

WEAK

acid acrid acrimonious awkward bad-tempered blunt brusque captious choleric chuffy churlish crabbed cranky cross crotchety crusty cynical difficult dour fretful gloomy glum grouchy harsh huffy ill-humored ill-tempered irascible misanthropic morose mumpish nasty-tempered peevish perverse petulant prickly saturnine snappish sour splenetic sulky sullen surly tart testy tough trying unsociable

Antonyms

WEAK

amiable good-humored good-natured happy pleasant sweet

Example Sentences

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Trees and brush were scarcer and scrubbier than above, and the general aspect was becoming more and more like the semi-arid parts of the Colorado Desert.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

The hills on both sides of the river grew loftier and more rugged as we ran to the south, and the trees became patchier and scrubbier.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

Up, up, he went, and the pines grew shorter and scrubbier.

From The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)