What is another word for cantankerous?
693 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ kantˈaŋkəɹəs], [ kantˈaŋkəɹəs], [ k_a_n_t_ˈa_ŋ_k_ə_ɹ_ə_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for cantankerous:- argumentative (adjective)
- bad-tempered (adjective)
- belligerent (adjective)
- boorish (adjective)
- captious (adjective)
- churlish (adjective)
- combative (adjective)
- crabbed (adjective)
- cranky (adjective)
- cross (adjective)
- crotchety (adjective)
- crusty (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- difficult, crabby (adjective)
- disagreeable (adjective)
- disputatious (adjective)
- grim (adjective)
- grouchy (adjective)
- grumpy (adjective)
- ill (adjective)
- ill-tempered (adjective)
- incompliant (adjective)
- intractable (adjective)
- intractable /intransigent (adjective)
- irascible (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- mean (adjective)
- moody (adjective)
- morose (adjective)
- obstinate (adjective)
- peevish (adjective)
- perverse (adjective)
- plaintive (adjective)
- pugnacious (adjective)
- quarrelsome (adjective)
- querulous (adjective)
- refractory (adjective)
- short-tempered (adjective)
- stubborn (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- touchy (adjective)
- ugly (adjective)
- unbendable (adjective)
- uncompliant (adjective)
- unfeeling (adjective)
- bloody-minded (noun)
- cantankerous (noun)
- other synonyms
- boisterous
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Cantankerous:
adj.
•argumentative (adjective) •bad-tempered (adjective)- bad tempered,
- more atrabilious,
- snarly,
- badtempered,
- snarliest,
- snarlier,
- most atrabilious,
- atrabilious.
- flip,
- hot tempered,
- most battling,
- have chip on shoulder,
- have bone to pick,
- have chip shoulder,
- have a bone pick,
- have it for,
- more battling,
- have in for,
- on outs,
- have bone pick,
- flippest.
- more clodhopping,
- un-poised,
- most ill bred,
- ill mannered,
- illmannered,
- most out of line,
- un gracious,
- most out-of-order,
- bad mannered,
- most out-of-line,
- more illbred,
- uneducated,
- more out-of-line,
- more unpoised,
- un-civilized,
- Inurbane,
- un-polished,
- more out of line,
- un couth,
- more ill bred,
- un-educated,
- most clodhopping,
- most inurbane,
- more bearish,
- most cloddish,
- un educated,
- un-gracious,
- most bad-mannered,
- more swinish,
- more bad mannered,
- in urbane,
- most lowbred,
- un-refined,
- more badmannered,
- most badmannered,
- un civilized,
- most illbred,
- more cloddish,
- un-couth,
- more lowbred,
- more out of order,
- more clownish,
- more ill-bred,
- un refined,
- most out of order,
- most bearish,
- more inurbane,
- most ill-bred,
- most bad mannered,
- un poised,
- more out-of-order,
- most unpoised,
- Unpoised,
- in-urbane,
- un-cultured,
- most swinish,
- ill bred,
- gruff,
- most clownish,
- un cultured,
- more bad-mannered,
- un polished,
- oafish,
- badmannered.
- hyper-critical,
- ex acting,
- most nit-picking,
- hyper critical,
- more caviling,
- fault finding,
- most exceptive,
- overcritical,
- more exceptive,
- more nit-picking,
- more deprecating,
- ex-acting,
- more nit picking,
- more cavillous,
- most nit picking,
- nit picking,
- over-critical,
- most caviling,
- most cavillous,
- most deprecating.
- dis courteous,
- un-civil,
- un-neighborly,
- un civil,
- most unneighborly,
- un mannerly,
- more unneighborly,
- un neighborly,
- un-mannerly,
- dis-courteous,
- un-sociable,
- most cussed,
- more cussed.
- more trigger-happy,
- trigger-happy,
- more trigger happy,
- most hawkish,
- most ructious,
- most fireeating,
- most trigger happy,
- more ructious,
- most fire-eating,
- most triggerhappy,
- more hawkish,
- more fire eating,
- most fire eating,
- more fire-eating,
- most gladiatorial,
- most trigger-happy,
- more gladiatorial,
- more fireeating,
- strenuous,
- triggerhappy,
- fire eating,
- fireeating,
- more triggerhappy.
- got upon wrong side bed,
- badhumored,
- got on wrong side of bed,
- got wrong side of bed,
- out sorts,
- most illhumored,
- illhumored,
- got up wrong side bed,
- like bear,
- most ill humored,
- more badhumored,
- got up wrong side of bed,
- most vinegary,
- ill-humored,
- got wrong side bed,
- more bad-humored,
- more illhumored,
- most bad-humored,
- got upon wrong side of bed,
- most bad humored,
- more bad humored,
- quicktempered,
- quick tempered,
- ill humored,
- most ill-humored,
- more ill humored,
- more vinegary,
- got up on wrong side bed,
- most badhumored,
- more ill-humored,
- bad humored,
- got on wrong side bed.
- splenetic,
- more vexed,
- fractious,
- most pettish,
- most splenetic,
- out humor,
- faultfinding,
- more pettish,
- most vexed,
- more splenetic.
- arduous,
- adverse,
- contrary,
- trying,
- thorny,
- troublesome,
- complex,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- cumbersome,
- finicky,
- burdensome,
- demanding,
- fussy,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- onerous,
- hard,
- oppressive,
- wearing,
- grinding,
- rugged,
- stressful,
- complicated,
- tricky,
- ticklish,
- uphill,
- bothersome,
- tight,
- intractable,
- formidable,
- laborious,
- rough,
- severe,
- difficult,
- knotty,
- harsh.
- critical,
- choleric,
- stuffy,
- sour,
- huffy,
- morose,
- snappish,
- petulant,
- obstinate,
- irritable,
- dour,
- vinegarish.
- in exorable,
- most foreboding,
- fore boding,
- un relenting,
- more glowering,
- most glowering,
- forbidding,
- fore-boding,
- re solute,
- re-solute,
- un-relenting,
- un-yielding,
- grisly,
- more scowling,
- un yielding,
- more foreboding,
- most scowling,
- stern,
- in-exorable.
- most unpromising,
- more unpromising,
- un-promising,
- un kind,
- more nocent,
- un wholesome,
- un promising,
- un luckiest,
- dis respectful,
- un-favorable,
- un-kindest,
- un-wholesome,
- un healthiest,
- un-luckiest,
- un-kind,
- un propitious,
- in-auspicious,
- dis-respectful,
- unpropitious,
- un lucky,
- un favorable,
- un kindest,
- most nocent,
- un-fortunate,
- inauspicious,
- un-propitious,
- in auspicious,
- un-healthiest,
- un-luckier,
- un luckier,
- un-kinder,
- un-lucky,
- un healthier,
- un fortunate,
- un-healthy,
- un kinder,
- un healthy,
- ill.
- in-tractable,
- more bull-headed,
- in tractable,
- more bull headed,
- pig headed,
- most bull-headed,
- most bull headed,
- bull headed.
- more toughnut,
- un pliablest,
- in soluble,
- un-manageable,
- un bending,
- most tough nut,
- most toughnut,
- most selfwilled,
- most tough-nut,
- more selfwilled,
- in docile,
- toughnut,
- more self-willed,
- un-pliablest,
- un compromising,
- selfwilled,
- unpliablest,
- hardline,
- un disciplined,
- most intransigent,
- un cooperative,
- most self willed,
- un pliabler,
- un-disciplined,
- self willed,
- in-curable,
- more tough-nut,
- un-governable,
- set stone,
- in-soluble,
- unpliabler,
- most self-willed,
- more self willed,
- un-bending,
- un-cooperative,
- un-pliable,
- un-pliabler,
- un governable,
- un manageable,
- un pliable,
- in-docile,
- more tough nut,
- in curable,
- un-compromising.
- bitter,
- bellicose,
- caustic,
- acid,
- surly,
- grumbling,
- spiteful,
- petty,
- tart,
- oversensitive,
- acrimonious,
- acerbic,
- easily offended,
- bitchy,
- Fretting.
- liverish,
- hardnosed,
- lowdown and dirty,
- toucher,
- the lowest,
- low-down dirty,
- low-down and dirty,
- snide.
- down mouth,
- in huff,
- down dumps,
- more moping,
- more piqued,
- most piqued,
- introspective,
- down the dumps,
- most moping,
- down the mouth.
- more out of sorts,
- most grousing,
- more growling,
- most growling,
- most out of sorts,
- most whining,
- more grousing,
- more out-of-sorts,
- most out-of-sorts,
- more whining.
- more beefing,
- more wailing,
- grief stricken,
- most beefing,
- most bellyaching,
- most wailing,
- wailing,
- more bellyaching,
- most saddening,
- more saddening.
- ex-citable,
- more cat-and-dog,
- ex citable,
- more cat and dog,
- warrest,
- most cat-and-dog,
- most cat and dog,
- cat and dog.
- more peckish,
- hot blooded,
- shortfused,
- short tempered,
- more short-fused,
- most peckish,
- most shortfused,
- most short-fused,
- most short fused,
- more shortfused,
- more short fused,
- shorttempered.
- most hardheaded,
- in-subordinate,
- stiff necked,
- more stiffnecked,
- most stiff necked,
- more stiff-necked,
- set ways,
- in subordinate,
- set in one ways,
- set in ways,
- most stiffnecked,
- more stiff necked,
- set in ones ways,
- most stiff-necked,
- single minded,
- stiffnecked,
- un-shakable,
- set one ways,
- set one's ways,
- set ones ways.
- dissociable,
- frowning,
- cynical,
- noncooperative,
- glum,
- unsociable,
- crabby,
- unfriendly,
- hostile,
- scowling,
- long-faced,
- malevolent,
- sulky,
- ungenial,
- glowering,
- melancholy,
- uncooperative,
- gloomy,
- fretful,
- broody,
- beetle-browed,
- Moping,
- sullen,
- dark,
- dejected.
- un safe,
- pre-carious,
- un-safest,
- hyper-sensitive,
- un safer,
- more hypersensitive,
- un-safer,
- un-predictable,
- un safest,
- most perturbable,
- most hypersensitive,
- wired up,
- more perturbable,
- bundle nerves,
- un-safe,
- pre carious,
- hyper sensitive,
- un predictable.
- un-emotional,
- in sensible,
- un feeling,
- more sensationless,
- un emotional,
- cold blooded,
- more ironhearted,
- in animate,
- in sensitive,
- most deadened,
- un-amiable,
- most uncordial,
- un-feeling,
- more deadened,
- more feelingless,
- more anesthetized,
- in-animate,
- un cordial,
- most ironhearted,
- most feelingless,
- in human,
- most iron hearted,
- un amiable,
- iron hearted,
- most iron-hearted,
- more uncordial,
- in-sensate,
- in-sensitive,
- in-human,
- un compassionate,
- Iron-hearted,
- un-caring,
- most sensationless,
- un-cordial,
- un-compassionate,
- most anesthetized,
- in sensate,
- cold hearted,
- thick skinned,
- be-numbed,
- thickskinned,
- un caring,
- more iron hearted,
- more unamiable,
- un sympathetic,
- most unamiable,
- more iron-hearted,
- in-sensible,
- be numbed.
n.
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- nasty,
- attitude,
- snappy,
- out of sorts.
Other synonyms:
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- ill-tempered.
- finical,
- cussed,
- bilious,
- bitching,
- hot-tempered,
- dyspeptic,
- highly strung,
- acerb,
- impatient,
- carping,
- irritated,
- over-particular,
- cutting,
- stroppy,
- rude,
- bloodthirsty,
- vexed,
- Cankered,
- Exceptious,
- rusty,
- biting,
- blunt,
- abrupt,
- in high dudgeon,
- in a pique,
- unregenerate,
- discourteous,
- restive,
- Snarling,
- criticizing,
- currish,
- inconsiderate,
- stinging,
- curt,
- hypercritical,
- Humorsome,
- unpleasant,
- abusive,
- excitable,
- thin-skinned,
- quick-tempered,
- feisty,
- Sinistrous,
- Spleeny,
- uncivil,
- Piqued,
- temperamental,
- Cavilling,
- on edge,
- Fault-finding,
- short,
- annoyed,
- edgy,
- grumpish,
- ill-humoured,
- Restiff,
- bad-natured,
- murmuring,
- brusque,
- froward,
- high-strung,
- cruel,
- complaining,
- wrongheaded,
- sharp,
- and Irish cranky,
- censorious,
- wayward,
- unaccommodating,
- Ill-conditioned,
- refractory,
- tetchy,
- tense,
- obnoxious,
- supersensitive,
- patchy,
- whining,
- vicious,
- huffish,
- sanguinary,
- sensitive,
- bluff,
- obstreperous,
- Moodish,
- shirty.
Antonyms for Cantankerous:
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adj.
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Other antonyms:
content, effervescent, calm, tolerant, gentle, placid, bubbly, patient, glad, kind, good-humored, high-spirited, lighthearted, vivacious, friendly, joyful, long-suffering, exuberant, docile, benign, amicable, serene, lively, cheery, congenial.
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