'Cantankerous' definitions:
Definition of 'cantankerous'
From: WordNet
adjective
Stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator [syn: bloody-minded, cantankerous]
adjective
Definition of 'Cantankerous'
From: GCIDE
- Cantankerous \Can*tan"ker*ous\, a. Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. [Colloq.] -- {Can*tan"ker*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Can*tan"ker*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
- The cantankerous old maiden aunt. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] Cantar
Synonyms of 'cantankerous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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