Definition for Cantankerous:

• Cross- grained: perverse in temper.

Synonyms for Cantankerous:

• adj.

  •aggressive (adjective)
  • combative.
  •argumentative (adjective)
  • disputatious.
  •crotchety (adjective)
  • cross-grained,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • Crossgrained.
  •dangerous (adjective)
  • ugly.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • adverse,
  • arduous,
  • bothersome,
  • burdensome,
  • complex,
  • complicated,
  • contrary,
  • cumbersome,
  • demanding,
  • difficult,
  • finicky,
  • formidable,
  • fussy,
  • grinding,
  • hard,
  • harsh,
  • knotty,
  • laborious,
  • onerous,
  • oppressive,
  • rough,
  • rugged,
  • severe,
  • strenuous,
  • stressful,
  • thorny,
  • ticklish,
  • tight,
  • toilsome,
  • tough,
  • tricky,
  • troublesome,
  • trying,
  • uphill,
  • wearing,
  • wearisome,
  • wearying,
  • intractable.
  •difficult, crabby (adjective)
  • bad-tempered,
  • bearish,
  • captious,
  • choleric,
  • contrary,
  • cranky,
  • critical,
  • cross,
  • crotchety,
  • crusty,
  • disagreeable,
  • dour,
  • grouchy,
  • grumpy,
  • huffy,
  • ill-humored,
  • ill-natured,
  • irascible,
  • irritable,
  • morose,
  • obstinate,
  • ornery,
  • peevish,
  • perverse,
  • petulant,
  • prickly,
  • quarrelsome,
  • snappish,
  • sour,
  • stuffy,
  • testy,
  • vinegary,
  • vinegarish.
  •disagreeable (adjective)
  • unlikable.
  •ill-tempered (adjective)
  • crabbed.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • acerbic,
  • acid,
  • acrimonious,
  • bearish,
  • bellicose,
  • bitter,
  • caustic,
  • churlish,
  • crabbed,
  • cranky,
  • cross,
  • crusty,
  • grumbling,
  • huffy,
  • irascible,
  • irritable,
  • peevish,
  • petty,
  • petulant,
  • prickly,
  • snappish,
  • sour,
  • spiteful,
  • surly,
  • tart,
  • touchy,
  • ill-tempered,
  • bitchy.
  •mean (adjective)
  • liverish,
  • ornery.
  •obstinate (adjective)
  • obstinate,
  • refractory.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • beetle-browed,
  • broody,
  • crabby,
  • cynical,
  • dark,
  • dejected,
  • dissociable,
  • dour,
  • fretful,
  • frowning,
  • gloomy,
  • glowering,
  • glum,
  • grim,
  • grouchy,
  • grumpy,
  • hostile,
  • long-faced,
  • malevolent,
  • mean,
  • melancholy,
  • moody,
  • morose,
  • obstinate,
  • scowling,
  • sulky,
  • sullen,
  • uncooperative,
  • unfriendly,
  • unsociable,
  • Moping,
  • noncooperative,
  • ungenial,
  • contrary,
  • cross,
  • irascible,
  • petulant,
  • sour,
  • surly.
  •testy (adjective)
  • tetchy.

• n.

  •
  • argumentative,
  • combative,
  • contentious,
  • contrarian,
  • truculent,
  • volatile.
  •
  • bad-tempered,
  • disagreeable,
  • ill-tempered,
  • nasty,
  • querulous,
  • snappy,
  • testy,
  • ugly,
  • waspish.
  •cantankerous (noun)
  • bloody-minded,
  • crotchety,
  • ill-natured,
  • ornery,
  • stubborn.
  •peevish (noun)
  • critical,
  • quarrelsome.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • argumentative,
  • bad-tempered,
  • combative,
  • pugnacious,
  • scrappy,
  • shrewish,
  • truculent,
  • snippy.
  •
  • contentious,
  • contrarian,
  • ill-tempered,
  • querulous,
  • waspish.
  •
  • testy.
  •
  • disagreeable,
  • volatile.
  •
  • snappy.
  •
  • nasty.
  •bad-tempered
  • quarrelsome.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abrupt,
  • abusive,
  • acerb,
  • annoyed,
  • argumentative,
  • bad-tempered,
  • belligerent,
  • bilious,
  • biting,
  • bloodthirsty,
  • bloody-minded,
  • bluff,
  • blunt,
  • boorish,
  • brusque,
  • captious,
  • carping,
  • censorious,
  • choleric,
  • combative,
  • complaining,
  • contentious,
  • contrarian,
  • critical,
  • cross-grained,
  • crotchety,
  • cruel,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • currish,
  • curt,
  • cussed,
  • cutting,
  • disagreeable,
  • discourteous,
  • disputatious,
  • dyspeptic,
  • edgy,
  • excitable,
  • feisty,
  • finical,
  • fractious,
  • froward,
  • gruff,
  • grumbling,
  • high-strung,
  • highly strung,
  • hot-tempered,
  • huffish,
  • hypercritical,
  • hypersensitive,
  • ill,
  • ill-humored,
  • ill-humoured,
  • ill-natured,
  • ill-tempered,
  • impatient,
  • inconsiderate,
  • intractable,
  • irritated,
  • liverish,
  • loutish,
  • murmuring,
  • nasty,
  • obnoxious,
  • obstreperous,
  • ornery,
  • patchy,
  • perverse,
  • pettish,
  • plaintive,
  • pugnacious,
  • quarrelsome,
  • querulous,
  • quick-tempered,
  • refractory,
  • restive,
  • rude,
  • rusty,
  • sanguinary,
  • scrappy,
  • sensitive,
  • sharp,
  • shirty,
  • short,
  • short-tempered,
  • shrewish,
  • snappy,
  • splenetic,
  • stinging,
  • stroppy,
  • stubborn,
  • stuffy,
  • supersensitive,
  • temperamental,
  • tense,
  • testy,
  • tetchy,
  • thin-skinned,
  • truculent,
  • ugly,
  • unaccommodating,
  • uncivil,
  • unfeeling,
  • unlikable,
  • unpleasant,
  • unregenerate,
  • vexed,
  • vicious,
  • vinegary,
  • volatile,
  • waspish,
  • wayward,
  • whining,
  • wrongheaded,
  • Cankered,
  • Cavilling,
  • Exceptious,
  • Fault-finding,
  • Humorsome,
  • Incompliant,
  • Moodish,
  • Piqued,
  • Restiff,
  • Sinistrous,
  • Crossgrained,
  • Snarling,
  • Spleeny,
  • criticizing,
  • grousing,
  • snippy,
  • bitching,
  • uncompliant,
  • vinegarish,
  • grumpish,
  • Ill-conditioned,
  • in high dudgeon,
  • on edge,
  • bad-natured,
  • over-particular.

Antonyms for Cantankerous:

• adj.

  • difficult, crabby
    cheerful, easy, good-natured, happy, nice, pleasant.
  • Other antonyms:
    agreeable, amiable, amicable, benign, bubbly, calm, cheerful, cheery, congenial, content, docile, effervescent, exuberant, friendly, gentle, glad, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, happy, high-spirited, joyful, kind, lighthearted, lively, long-suffering, nice, patient, placid, pleasant, serene, sweet, tolerant, vivacious.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    affable, agreeable, amiable, amicable, benign, breezy, bubbly, calm, cheerful, cheery, complaisant, congenial, content, easy, effervescent, exuberant, genial, gentle, glad, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, happy, high-spirited, kind, kindly, lighthearted, lively, long-suffering, merry, patient, placid, pleasant, serene, sweet, vivacious.