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Definition of Cantankerous
1. Adjective. Stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate. "Unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Similar to: Obstinate, Stubborn, Unregenerate
2. Adjective. Having a difficult and contrary disposition. "A cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"
Similar to: Ill-natured
Derivative terms: Crotchet, Crotchetiness, Orneriness
Definition of Cantankerous
1. a. Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious.
Definition of Cantankerous
1. Adjective. given to or marked by an ill-tempered nature, ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cantankerous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantankerous
Literary usage of Cantankerous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Holiday in Gaol by Frederic Martyn (1911)
"CHAPTER XLII THE Cantankerous man was a most cantankerous fellow, and got his
own way in almost everything by dint of perseverance. ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"•игл-, testy, touchy, cantankerous, crusty, fretful, peevish, petulant, pettish,
snappish, waspish, marling, cynical, ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1866)
"Let me, not unkindly, set forth the praises of Cantankerous and Pig-headed Folly ;
and show certain reasons why it is profitable to a human being that he be ..."
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