'Crotchety' definitions:
Definition of 'crotchety'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers [syn: cantankerous, crotchety, ornery]
Definition of 'Crotchety'
From: GCIDE
- Crotchety \Crotch"et*y\ (kr?ch"?t-?), a. Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'crotchety'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormal,
- anomalous,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- arbitrary,
- bearish,
- breakaway,
- cankered,
- capricious,
- clashing,
- conflicting,
- contradicting,
- contradictory,
- counteractant,
- counteracting,
- counteractive,
- countervailing,
- counterworking,
- crank,
- crankish,
- cranky,
- cross-grained,
- deviant,
- deviative,
- different,
- dissident,
- divergent,
- dotty,
- eccentric,
- erratic,
- exceptional,
- fanciful,
- fantasied,
- fantastic,
- fey,
- flaky,
- freakish,
- funny,
- harebrained,
- hostile,
- humorsome,
- idiocratic,
- idiosyncratic,
- inimical,
- irregular,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- maggoty,
- moody,
- motiveless,
- nonconformist,
- notional,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- opposing,
- oppositional,
- oppugnant,
- ornery,
- peculiar,
- perverse,
- petulant,
- queer,
- quirky,
- reactionary,
- recalcitrant,
- renitent,
- repugnant,
- resistant,
- revolutionary,
- screwball,
- screwy,
- singular,
- strange,
- temperamental,
- twisted,
- unconventional,
- unnatural,
- unreasonable,
- unrestrained,
- vagarious,
- vagrant,
- vinegarish,
- vinegary,
- wacky,
- wanton,
- waspish,
- wayward,
- whimsical