cantankerous

About 0.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby.

Similar words

ornery crotchety ill-natured stubborn bloody-minded testy crabbed crankish cankered atrabilious

Often followed by

and old as man nature in than mood or

Word family

cantankerously cantankerousness cantankerousnesses