cantankerous
Meaning of cantankerous
adjective
Given to or marked by an ill-tempered nature; ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby.
Information about cantankerous
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of cantankerous
can-tan-ker-ous
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- cantankerous is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
cantankerous synonyms
Meaning crotchety:
Meaning :
cranky, grouchy, grumpy, surly, truculent
Translation of cantankerous
- Spanish: gruñón, gruñona, predispuesto, predispuesta
- German: mürrisch, widerspenstig, störrisch, streitsüchtig, knurrig, schrullig, schrullenhaft, launisch, zänkisch
- French: grognon, irritable
- Italian: stizzoso
- Portuguese: resmungão
Words that rhyme with cantankerous
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