'Crabbed' definitions:
Definition of 'crabbed'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Crabbed'
From: GCIDE
- Crabbed \Crab"bed\ (kr?b"b?d), a. [See Crab,n.]
- 1. Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. [1913 Webster]
- Crabbed age and youth can not live together. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author. "Crabbed eloquence." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting. -- {Crab"bed*ly}, adv. -- {Crab"bed*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'crabbed'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acescent,
- anile,
- balled up,
- bearish,
- beyond one,
- bitchy,
- blunt,
- brusque,
- Byzantine,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- choleric,
- churlish,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confounded,
- confused,
- convoluted,
- crab,
- cramp,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crusty,
- cussed,
- daedal,
- debilitated,
- decrepit,
- devious,
- difficult,
- disagreeable,
- doddered,
- doddering,
- doddery,
- dour,
- dry,
- elaborate,
- embrangled,
- entangled,
- excitable,
- feeble,
- feisty,
- fossilized,
- fouled up,
- fractious,
- garbled,
- gerontal,
- gerontic,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- green,
- gruff,
- hard,
- hard to understand,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- implicated,
- infirm,
- intricate,
- involuted,
- involved,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jumbled,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- loused up,
- many-faceted,
- matted,
- mazy,
- mean,
- meandering,
- messed up,
- mixed up,
- morose,
- mossbacked,
- moth-eaten,
- mucked up,
- multifarious,
- mummylike,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- ornery,
- overtechnical,
- palsied,
- papery-skinned,
- perplexed,
- perverse,
- pickled,
- pungent,
- ramified,
- ravaged with age,
- rickety,
- roundabout,
- run to seed,
- rusty,
- saturnine,
- scrambled,
- screwed up,
- sec,
- senile,
- shaky,
- shriveled,
- snappish,
- snarled,
- sour,
- sour as vinegar,
- soured,
- sourish,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- stricken in years,
- subtle,
- sulky,
- surly,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- tart,
- tartish,
- testy,
- timeworn,
- tottering,
- tottery,
- tough,
- twisted,
- ugly,
- unripe,
- unsweet,
- unsweetened,
- vinegarish,
- vinegary,
- waspish,
- weak,
- withered,
- wizened
Words containing 'Crabbed'
- Crab,
- Crabbedly,
- Crabbing,
- crabs,
- Blue crab,
- Box crab,
- Calling crab,
- Crab Orchard,
- Crab apple,
- Crab grass,
- Crab louse,
- Crab plover,
- Crab spider,
- Crab tree,
- Crab wood,
- Crab's eyes,
- Crab's stones,
- Diogenes' crab,
- Edible crab,
- Fiddler crab,
- Fighting crab,
- Green crab,
- Hermit crab,
- Horse crab,
- Jonah crab,
- Kelp crab,
- King crab,
- Lady crab,
- Land crab,
- Masked crab,
- Molucca crab,
- Mud crab,
- Nut crab,
- Palm crab,
- Pea crab,
- Porcelain crab,
- Porcupine crab,
- Purse crab,
- Racing crab,
- River crab,
- Robber crab,
- Rock crab,
- Sand crab,
- Scavenger crab,
- Shore crab,
- Siberian crab,
- Soft crab,
- Soldier crab,
- Spider crab,
- Stone crab,
- Strawberry crab,
- Swimming crab,
- To catch a crab,
- Tree crab,
- Triangular crab,
- Velvet crab,
- alaska crab,
- bechtel crab,
- calico crab,
- cancer the crab,
- cherry crab,
- crab cactus,
- crab cocktail,
- crab legs,
- crab louis,
- crab nebula,
- crab wherry,
- dungeness crab,
- flowering crab,
- garland crab,
- giant crab,
- horsehoe crab,
- horseshoe crab,
- iowa crab,
- japanese crab,
- mantis crab,
- oyster crab,
- prairie crab,
- sentinel crab,
- wild crab,
- Alaskan king crab,
- Crab Orchard, KY,
- Crab Orchard, NE,
- Crab Orchard, TN,
- Crab Orchard, WV,
- Crab-yaws,
- Glass-crab,
- alaska king crab,
- american crab apple,
- american lady crab,
- asian horseshoe crab,
- cultivated crab apple,
- english lady crab,
- european spider crab,
- iowa crab apple,
- mud-crab,
- oregon crab apple,
- siberian crab apple,
- southern crab apple,
- western crab apple,
- Soft-shelled crab,
- Soft-shelled crabs,
- crab-eating dog,
- crab-eating fox,
- crab-eating macaque,
- crab-eating opossum,
- crab-eating seal,
- hard-shell crab,
- soft-shell crab,
- crabbed crabby cross fussy fussbudgety grouchy grumpy bad-tempered ill-tempered