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| Main Entry: | cranky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in bad mood |
| Synonyms: | cantankerous, choleric, crabby, cross, crotchety, disagreeable, grouchy, grumpy, hot-tempered, irascible, irritable, mean, ornery*, out of sorts, perverse, quick-tempered, ratty, snappish, ugly, bad-humored, bearish, cussed, got up on wrong side of bed, ill-humored, like a bear, tetchy, vinegary |
| Antonyms: | amiable, cheerful, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | acrimonious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty in behavior, speech |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, angry, astringent, belligerent, biting, bitter, caustic, censorious, churlish, crabby, cranky, cross, cutting, indignant, irascible, irate, mad, mordant, peevish, petulant, sarcastic, sharp, spiteful, tart, testy, trenchant, wrathful, ireful, rancorous, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | kind, kindly, peaceable |
| Main Entry: | cantankerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, crabby |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, captious, choleric, contrary, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety*, crusty*, disagreeable, dour, grouchy*, grumpy*, huffy*, ill-natured, irascible, irritable, morose, obstinate, ornery*, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, snappish, sour, stuffy*, testy, bearish, ill-humored, vinegarish, vinegary |
| Antonyms: | easy, good-natured, happy, nice, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crabby/crabbed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a bad mood |
| Synonyms: | acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty*, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy*, harsh, huffy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, misanthropic, morose, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, snappy, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable, ill-humored, nasty-tempered, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cross |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry; in a bad mood |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, cantankerous, captious, choleric, churlish, crabby*, cranky, crotchety*, crusty, disagreeable, faultfinding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, impatient, irascible, irritable, jumpy, peeved, peevish, petulant, put out*, querulous, quick-tempered, ratty, short, snappy, sullen, surly, testy, touchy, waspish, caviling, ill-humored, out of humor, pettish, splenetic, tetchy, vexed |
| Antonyms: | animated, cheerful, happy, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crotchety |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, often due to old age |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bad-tempered, cantankerous, contrary, crabby*, cranky, cross, crusty, difficult, disagreeable, eccentric, fractious, grouchy, grumpy, irritable, obstinate, obstreperous, odd, ornery*, peevish, queer, surly, testy, unusual, waspish, bearish, cross-grained, curmudgeonly, vinegary, waspy |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disgruntled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhappy; critical |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, crabby, cranky, disappointed, discontent, discontented, displeased, dissatisfied, grouchy, grumpy, irritable, irritated, malcontent, peeved, peevish, petulant, put out, sulky, sullen, testy, bad tempered, bellyaching, crabbing, griping, grousing, kicking, kvetching, malcontented, uncontent, ungratified, vexed |
| Antonyms: | contented, happy, pleased, satisfied, uncritical |
| Main Entry: | fretful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable |
| Synonyms: | captious, carping*, complaining, contrary, crabby*, cranky*, critical, cross, crotchety*, edgy, faultfinding, fractious, huffy*, mean, ornery*, out of sorts*, peevish, perverse, petulant, querulous, short-tempered, snappish*, testy, touchy, uneasy, worried, wreck*, caviling, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | calm, happy, joyous, laid-back, pleased, cheered, easy-going, relaxed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irascible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crabby |
| Synonyms: | angry, bristly, cantankerous, choleric, cranky, cross, feisty, fractious, grouchy, hasty, hot-tempered, huffy, irritable, ogre, passionate, peevish, petulant, querulous, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappish, surly, testy, thin-skinned*, touchy, uptight, bearish, crabbed, ireful |
| Notes: | irate means 'angry' while irascible means 'disposed toward or easily provoked to anger' (both are from Latin ira 'anger') |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | morose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, pessimistic |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, blue*, brusque, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, crabby*, cranky*, cross, dolorous, dour, down, down in the mouth*, frowning, gloomy, glum, grouchy, gruff, harsh, ill-tempered, irritable, low, melancholy, moody, mournful, perverse, sad, saturnine, snappish, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, taciturn, testy, troubled, ugly, crabbed, down in the dumps, having blue devils, having the blahs, ill-humored, in a bad mood, in a blue funk, moping, perversive, singing the blues, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, friendly, happy, optimistic, light-hearted, uplifted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ornery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mean |
| Synonyms: | cantankerous, contemptible, crabby, cranky, crusty*, difficult, disagreeable, grouchy*, grumpy*, hard-nosed, ignoble, ill-tempered, irritable, nasty, obstinate, quarrelsome, rotten, sour, surly, testy, unfriendly, vicious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | peevish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, testy |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, angry, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, carping, childish, churlish, complaining, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety*, crusty*, fault-finding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-natured, mean, morose, obstinate, ogre, ornery, pertinacious, petulant, querulous, short-tempered, snappy, sulky, sullen, surly, touchy, ugly, waspish, caviling, crabbed, cussed, fretting, grousing, growling, out-of-sorts, splenetic, tetchy, waspy, whining |
| Antonyms: | friendly, happy, pleasant, accepting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | petulant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crabby, moody |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, captious, complaining, cranky*, cross, crybaby*, displeased, fault-finding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumbling, huffy, impatient, irritable, mean, peevish, perverse, querulous, snappish, sour, sulky, sullen, testy, touchy, ungracious, uptight*, waspish, caviling, ill-humored, pouting, whining, whiny |
| Antonyms: | good-natured, happy, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plaintive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pathetic, woebegone |
| Synonyms: | cantankerous, crabby*, cranky*, disconsolate, doleful, grief-stricken, grievous, grumpy*, heartrending, lamenting, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, out of sorts*, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, rueful, sad, sorrowful, wistful, woeful, beefing, bellyaching, grousing, saddening, wailing |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quick-tempered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily upset, angered |
| Synonyms: | choleric, cranky, cross, excitable, fiery, hot-tempered, impatient, impulsive, inflammable, irascible, irritable, passionate, peppery, petulant, quarrelsome, ratty, sensitive, short-tempered, shrewish, temperamental, testy, waspish, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | calm, cool, even-tempered, laid-back, easy-going |
| Main Entry: | testy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, touchy |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, choleric, cranky*, cross, crotchety, edgy, fretful, grouchy, grumpy*, impatient, irascible, mean, ornery*, out of sorts, peevish, peppery, petulant, quarrelsome, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappy*, sullen, thin-skinned*, uptight*, waspish, crabbed, exasperated, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | happy, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | touchy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily offended |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, choleric, cranky, cross, delicate, dicey*, grouchy, grumpy, hazardous, irascible, irritable, jumpy*, mean, ornery*, peevish, petulant, precarious, querulous, quick-tempered, risky, sensitive, surly, temperamental, testy, thin-skinned*, ticklish*, tricky, unpredictable, unsafe, uptight*, volatile, bundle of nerves, crabbed, hypersensitive, oversensitive, perturbable, pettish, splenetic, wired up, wound up |
| Antonyms: | calm, easygoing, laid-back, unflappable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable |
| Synonyms: | acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky, cross, crotchety, crusty, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy, harsh, huffy, ill-tempered, irascible, misanthropic, morose, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable, chuffy, crabbed, ill-humored, mumpish, nasty-tempered, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | amiable, good-humored, good-natured, happy, pleasant, sweet |
| Main Entry: | snappish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cross |
| Synonyms: | angry, cantankerous, crabby, cranky, curt, irritable, touchy |
| Main Entry: | short-tempered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quick to anger |
| Synonyms: | cantankerous, crabby, cranky, crotchety, fiery, grouchy, hot-tempered, ill-tempered, impatient, irascible, irritable, quick-tempered, snappish, snappy, temperamental, testy, touchy, volatile, volatile, hot-blooded, peckish, short-fused |
| Antonyms: | calm, placid, easy-going |
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