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- pronunciation:
- kaen
taeng
k
rihs
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adjective |
| definition: |
irritable, stubborn, and quarrelsome.
I'm always a bit cantankerous in the morning if I don't get enough sleep.After his wife left him, he became a bitter and cantankerous old man.- synonyms:
- crabby, cross-grained, crotchety
- similar words:
- bad-tempered, bilious, contentious, cranky, disagreeable, grouchy, grumpy, ill-natured, irritable, ornery, peevish, perverse, quarrelsome, stubborn, surly, testy
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| related words: |
argumentative, petulant, querulous, snappish, waspish |
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| derivations: |
cantankerously (adv.), cantankerousness (n.) |
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