Definition for Cantankerousness:

• Crossness; ill- humour; petulance.

Synonyms for Cantankerousness:

• n.

  •argumentativeness (noun)
  • contentiousness,
  • belligerence,
  • Litigiousness,
  • combativeness.
  •difficulty (noun)
  • complication,
  • wearisomeness,
  • contrariness,
  • strenuousness,
  • fussiness,
  • severity,
  • cumbersomeness,
  • knottiness,
  • tightness,
  • arduousness,
  • formidability,
  • trickiness,
  • oppressiveness,
  • wearying,
  • harshness,
  • ordeal,
  • adversity,
  • stressfulness,
  • toughness,
  • roughness,
  • hardness,
  • complexity,
  • ticklishness,
  • onerousness,
  • difficulty.
  •sullenness (noun)
  • crabbiness,
  • meanness,
  • darkness,
  • grumpiness,
  • unfriendliness,
  • glumness,
  • cynicism,
  • dejection,
  • long-facedness,
  • hostility,
  • grimness,
  • moodiness,
  • melancholy,
  • obstinacy,
  • sulkiness,
  • moroseness,
  • malevolence,
  • sullenness,
  • gloominess,
  • dourness.
  •temper (noun)
  • irritability,
  • rage,
  • miff,
  • annoyance,
  • impatience,
  • ire,
  • furor,
  • fury,
  • resentment,
  • acerbity,
  • peevishness,
  • anger,
  • irritation,
  • petulance,
  • passion,
  • outburst,
  • tantrum,
  • sensitivity,
  • tiff,
  • wax,
  • fit,
  • tear,
  • dander,
  • heat,
  • snit,
  • tizzy,
  • stew.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • crossness,
  • excitability,
  • fretfulness,
  • huffiness,
  • ill humor,
  • irascibility,
  • pugnacity,
  • quarrelsomeness,
  • sourness,
  • surliness,
  • tartness,
  • temper,
  • tetchiness,
  • touchiness,
  • hotheadedness,
  • grouchiness,
  • irascibleness,
  • disputatiousness,
  • short fuse,
  • slow burn,
  • low boiling point,
  • bad humor,
  • ill-humor,
  • short-fuse.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abrasiveness,
  • abruptness,
  • accommodate,
  • acidulousness,
  • adamance,
  • aggravation,
  • aggravator,
  • aggression,
  • aggressiveness,
  • agree,
  • angriness,
  • anneal,
  • annoying,
  • antagonism,
  • asperity,
  • austereness,
  • awkwardness,
  • badness,
  • beastliness,
  • belligerency,
  • bicker,
  • bickering,
  • biliousness,
  • binge,
  • bitter,
  • black bile,
  • blowup,
  • bm,
  • bodily fluid,
  • body fluid,
  • bother,
  • botheration,
  • bout,
  • brood,
  • bruise,
  • buck,
  • bullheadedness,
  • burdensomeness,
  • burst,
  • bust,
  • cacoethes,
  • callosity,
  • callousness,
  • case,
  • cattiness,
  • chafe,
  • character reference,
  • charge,
  • chasten,
  • check,
  • choler,
  • choppiness,
  • circumstance,
  • climate,
  • climb,
  • closeness,
  • compactness,
  • complexness,
  • complicatedness,
  • concentration,
  • conform to,
  • conniption,
  • consideration,
  • constriction,
  • continuity,
  • convulsion,
  • correspond,
  • craze,
  • crotchetiness,
  • crudeness,
  • cruelness,
  • cruelty,
  • cult,
  • curtness,
  • dark,
  • defiance,
  • delirium,
  • denseness,
  • density,
  • deplumate,
  • deplume,
  • difficultness,
  • discipline,
  • discomfort,
  • disembodied spirit,
  • disorderliness,
  • displume,
  • disposal,
  • distemper,
  • dither,
  • duskiness,
  • eccentric,
  • effusion,
  • emotional state,
  • emotionlessness,
  • enmity,
  • equip,
  • erinyes,
  • estrus,
  • eumenides,
  • excitableness,
  • excitation,
  • exhausting,
  • experimental condition,
  • fad,
  • faeces,
  • fastness,
  • fecal matter,
  • feces,
  • feel,
  • feeling,
  • ferocity,
  • fiber,
  • fibre,
  • fictional character,
  • fictitious character,
  • fierceness,
  • fill,
  • fire up,
  • fit out,
  • fixity,
  • fixture,
  • flap,
  • flavor,
  • flavour,
  • fractiousness,
  • frenzy,
  • fret,
  • fulfil,
  • fulfill,
  • full,
  • furiousness,
  • furore,
  • fuss,
  • gall,
  • ghastliness,
  • gibe,
  • gloom,
  • go,
  • graph,
  • grapheme,
  • graphic symbol,
  • grizzle,
  • grudge,
  • gruesomeness,
  • gruffness,
  • gush,
  • hackles,
  • harden,
  • hardship,
  • heart,
  • heat energy,
  • heat up,
  • heating,
  • heating plant,
  • heating system,
  • heaviness,
  • high temperature,
  • hot up,
  • hotness,
  • huff,
  • huffishness,
  • humour,
  • hurt,
  • huskiness,
  • hysteria,
  • ignite,
  • immobility,
  • impassiveness,
  • impassivity,
  • inclemency,
  • inclination,
  • indentation,
  • indifference,
  • inflame,
  • inflexibleness,
  • infliction,
  • injure,
  • innervation,
  • insensibility,
  • inspirit,
  • insubordination,
  • intent,
  • intractableness,
  • intransigency,
  • ira,
  • jaundice,
  • jibe,
  • lather,
  • lien,
  • life,
  • lineament,
  • liquid body substance,
  • littleness,
  • liveliness,
  • look,
  • love,
  • lugubriousness,
  • luridness,
  • madness,
  • malevolency,
  • malice,
  • maliciousness,
  • malignity,
  • mania,
  • match,
  • meet,
  • melancholic,
  • militance,
  • militancy,
  • minginess,
  • modality,
  • mode,
  • moderate,
  • mollify,
  • mount,
  • nastiness,
  • nefariousness,
  • niggardliness,
  • normalize,
  • obstinance,
  • oestrus,
  • offend,
  • oppression,
  • ordure,
  • orneriness,
  • outfit,
  • pain,
  • pain in the ass,
  • pain in the neck,
  • paroxysm,
  • parsimoniousness,
  • parsimony,
  • part,
  • passionateness,
  • perseverance,
  • perseveration,
  • persona,
  • pettishness,
  • phlegm,
  • pique,
  • pitting,
  • pluck,
  • pother,
  • precondition,
  • predisposition,
  • primed,
  • provocation,
  • pull,
  • puniness,
  • purport,
  • qualify,
  • quality,
  • quick temper,
  • raggedness,
  • ramification,
  • ramp,
  • rancor,
  • rancour,
  • rascality,
  • recalcitrancy,
  • reference,
  • rent,
  • resoluteness,
  • resolution,
  • resolve,
  • restlessness,
  • rigidity,
  • rigidness,
  • rigor,
  • rigorousness,
  • rigour,
  • rip,
  • rise,
  • role,
  • rough water,
  • rowdiness,
  • rowdyism,
  • ruggedness,
  • rupture,
  • rut,
  • sadness,
  • satisfy,
  • scene,
  • scratchiness,
  • season,
  • secureness,
  • see red,
  • seeing red,
  • self-will,
  • sense of humor,
  • sensibility,
  • sensitiveness,
  • set,
  • severeness,
  • shadow,
  • shape,
  • shiftiness,
  • shoot,
  • short temper,
  • shortness,
  • slightness,
  • slipperiness,
  • smallness,
  • smell,
  • snag,
  • snap,
  • somber,
  • somberness,
  • sombre,
  • sombreness,
  • soreness,
  • soundness,
  • sour,
  • spat,
  • specify,
  • spirit up,
  • split,
  • sprightliness,
  • squabble,
  • stamina,
  • stationariness,
  • status,
  • staying power,
  • steadiness,
  • stiffness,
  • stipulate,
  • stipulation,
  • stir up,
  • stodginess,
  • stoicism,
  • stolidness,
  • stool,
  • storm,
  • stringency,
  • suit,
  • sulk,
  • swarthiness,
  • sweat,
  • swither,
  • tally,
  • tautness,
  • teardrop,
  • tenaciousness,
  • tendency,
  • term,
  • theatrical role,
  • tightfistedness,
  • tiring,
  • tone,
  • tortuousness,
  • train,
  • triviality,
  • trouble,
  • tumultuous disturbance,
  • type,
  • unalterability,
  • unemotionality,
  • unfeelingness,
  • unmanageableness,
  • unruliness,
  • unwieldiness,
  • unyieldingness,
  • vehemence,
  • venom,
  • vexation,
  • vileness,
  • violence,
  • volatility,
  • wake,
  • warmth,
  • wearing,
  • wickedness,
  • wildness,
  • willfulness,
  • wit,
  • witticism,
  • wittiness,
  • wound,
  • wrath,
  • trial by ordeal,
  • ill will,
  • strings,
  • hard knocks,
  • shoot down,
  • thorniness,
  • bellicoseness,
  • firmness of purpose,
  • rigourousness,
  • flare-up.

Antonyms for Cantankerousness:

• n.

  • irascibility
    ease, pleasure, joy, harmony, control, enjoyment.
  • temper
    upset, contentment, wrath, peace, happiness, calm, calmness.

Cantankerousness Sentence Examples:

• Eating his breakfast in his usual wolfish fashion, he went out into the hot sun with his team and riding - plough, not a little disturbed by this new phase of his wife's " cantankerousness."

• Not often; but the regular people usually make up for it in - well, in cantankerousness; that's about the only word that will fit it.