What is another word for cantankerous?

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combative, confrontational, truculent, snippy, argumentative, shrewish, ill-tempered, yelling, 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, disputatious, 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, most crabbed, 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, curmudgeonly, cross-grained, Crossgrained, waspy, more snarling, most snarling, 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, whiniest, whiny, whinier, unlikable, more dissentious, most dissentious, dissentious, 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, dis contented, dis-contented, dis-satisfied, dis satisfied, more griping, most griping, 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, crabbed, in-compliant, more brassbound, muler, mulest, in compliant, most brassbound, 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, ogrest, ogrer, thin skinned, thinskinned, 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 perversive, singing blues, having blahs, in a blue funk, most perversive, opinionative, opinionated, strong-minded, dead set on, 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, de-generate, dis obedient, un reasonable, un-reasonable, de generate, dis-obedient, more beefing, more wailing, grief stricken, most beefing, most bellyaching, most wailing, wailing, more bellyaching, most saddening, more saddening, ready to fight, itching to fight, self-assertive, ex-citable, more cat-and-dog, ex citable, more cat and dog, warrest, most cat-and-dog, most cat and dog, cat and dog, huffy irascible, Grumbly, out of sorts peevish, thin-skinned touchy, in-corrigible, in corrigible, un responsive, un-responsive, 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, fellest, un bendable, un-bendable, un compliant, un-compliant, 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, contrarian, volatile, contentious, nasty, attitude, snappy, out of sorts, bloody-minded, ornery, stubborn, ill-natured, combative

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What is another word for cantankerous?

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Definition for Cantankerous:

Synonyms for Cantankerous:

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