Synonyms for Cranky:

• adj.

  •acrimonious (adjective)
  • most splenetic,
  • mordant,
  • more splenetic,
  • splenetic.
  •cantankerous (adjective)
  • most ill humored,
  • ill-humored,
  • most illhumored,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • illhumored,
  • more bearish,
  • more vinegarish,
  • huffy,
  • most ill-humored,
  • most vinegary,
  • irritable,
  • more ill humored,
  • ill humored,
  • most vinegarish,
  • more vinegary,
  • obstinate,
  • most bearish,
  • more illhumored,
  • morose,
  • illnatured,
  • dis agreeable,
  • more ill-humored,
  • badtempered,
  • ill natured.
  •crabbed (adjective)
  • most crabbed.
  •crabby (adjective)
  • most mumpish,
  • chuffier,
  • more mumpish,
  • chuffiest.
  •crabby/crabbed (adjective)
  • nastytempered,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • more nasty tempered,
  • more nastytempered,
  • most nasty tempered,
  • most nastytempered,
  • mis anthropic,
  • nasty tempered,
  • most nasty-tempered,
  • un-sociable,
  • illtempered,
  • more nasty-tempered.
  •cross (adjective)
  • ill tempered,
  • faultfinding,
  • more vexed,
  • most pettish,
  • most caviling,
  • most vexed,
  • out humor,
  • more pettish,
  • more caviling.
  •crotchety (adjective)
  • waspy,
  • cross-grained,
  • Crossgrained,
  • curmudgeonly.
  •crusty (adjective)
  • more snarling,
  • most snarling.
  •disgruntled (adjective)
  • bad tempered,
  • un-gratified,
  • most grousing,
  • more malcontented,
  • dis-appointed,
  • dis-pleased,
  • more kicking,
  • dis-content,
  • dis satisfied,
  • most malcontented,
  • dis pleased,
  • most kvetching,
  • more kvetching,
  • un-content,
  • most griping,
  • uncontent,
  • more uncontent,
  • most kicking,
  • more crabbing,
  • more grousing,
  • un content,
  • most crabbing,
  • dis content,
  • most ungratified,
  • dis-satisfied,
  • more griping,
  • most bellyaching,
  • most discontented,
  • more bellyaching,
  • most uncontent,
  • dis-contented,
  • dis contented,
  • dis appointed,
  • more ungratified,
  • un gratified.
  •excitable (adjective)
  • edgy,
  • fiery,
  • nervous,
  • volatile,
  • sensitive,
  • excitable,
  • passionate,
  • reckless,
  • explosive,
  • impulsive,
  • brittle,
  • fragile,
  • combustible,
  • emotional,
  • volcanic,
  • high-strung,
  • rash,
  • tempestuous,
  • ardent,
  • stormy.
  •fretful (adjective)
  • un easier,
  • wreckest,
  • out sorts,
  • un-easiest,
  • un easy,
  • un-easier,
  • un easiest.
  •hot-tempered (adjective)
  • hot tempered.
  •ill-tempered (adjective)
  • crabbed.
  •in bad mood (adjective)
  • like a bear,
  • choleric,
  • ratty,
  • out of sorts,
  • snappish,
  • bad-humored,
  • got up on wrong side of bed,
  • ornery,
  • cussed.
  •irascible (adjective)
  • thin skinned,
  • up tight,
  • thinskinned,
  • up-tight,
  • ogrer,
  • ogrest.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • churlish,
  • sour,
  • prickly,
  • spiteful,
  • surly,
  • petty,
  • bellicose,
  • bitter,
  • caustic,
  • bitchy,
  • tart,
  • acerbic,
  • acid.
  •kooky (adjective)
  • un common,
  • un conventional,
  • un commonest,
  • un-common,
  • un-commoner,
  • un commoner,
  • off wall,
  • offcenter,
  • out left field,
  • un-natural,
  • un-conventional,
  • freakest,
  • off center.
  •morose (adjective)
  • singing blues,
  • down dumps,
  • down the mouth,
  • more moping,
  • having blahs,
  • more perversive,
  • most perversive,
  • down the dumps,
  • down mouth.
  •ornery (adjective)
  • hard nosed,
  • un-friendly,
  • hardnosed,
  • un-friendliest,
  • un friendliest,
  • un-friendlier,
  • un friendlier.
  •peevish (adjective)
  • more fretting,
  • fault finding,
  • most cussed,
  • more whining,
  • most fretting,
  • more out of sorts,
  • most out of sorts,
  • most out-of-sorts,
  • most growling,
  • Fretting,
  • more growling,
  • more out-of-sorts,
  • more cussed,
  • most whining.
  •peppery (adjective)
  • more sharp-tempered,
  • sharp tempered,
  • most sharp-tempered,
  • most sharp tempered,
  • more sharp tempered,
  • more sharptempered,
  • sharptempered,
  • most sharptempered.
  •petulant (adjective)
  • un gracious,
  • un-gracious,
  • most crybaby.
  •plaintive (adjective)
  • more beefing,
  • most wailing,
  • grief stricken,
  • most saddening,
  • more wailing,
  • most beefing,
  • more saddening.
  •quick-tempered (adjective)
  • in flammable,
  • quick tempered,
  • in-flammable,
  • quicktempered,
  • ex citable,
  • ex-citable.
  •short-tempered (adjective)
  • shortfused,
  • more short fused,
  • more short-fused,
  • most peckish,
  • most short fused,
  • most shortfused,
  • more peckish,
  • short tempered,
  • most short-fused,
  • shorttempered,
  • hot blooded,
  • more shortfused.
  •sickly (adjective)
  • laid-low,
  • bilious,
  • peaky,
  • out of shape,
  • sickish,
  • in poor health,
  • in firm,
  • out of action,
  • laid low.
  •testy (adjective)
  • ex-asperated,
  • most exasperated.
  •touchy (adjective)
  • bundle nerves,
  • more oversensitive,
  • un-safest,
  • hyper sensitive,
  • un predictable,
  • most oversensitive,
  • pre carious,
  • un safer,
  • over-sensitive,
  • most hypersensitive,
  • un safest,
  • more perturbable,
  • un-safe,
  • wired up,
  • un-predictable,
  • most perturbable,
  • un-safer,
  • hyper-sensitive,
  • un safe,
  • more hypersensitive,
  • pre-carious,
  • over sensitive,
  • oversensitive.

• n.

  •
  • moody,
  • temperamental.
  •
  • automatically,
  • attitude,
  • snappy,
  • clockwork,
  • nasty,
  • automatic,
  • disagreeable,
  • cordless,
  • built,
  • ugly,
  • clever,
  • mean,
  • broken,
  • auxiliary,
  • analog,
  • clean.
  •
  • homesick,
  • bleak,
  • miserable,
  • melancholy,
  • subdued,
  • gloomy,
  • sorrowful,
  • sad,
  • wistful,
  • unhappy.
  •crank (noun)
  • crank.
  •cranky (noun)
  • ill-natured,
  • tippy,
  • tender,
  • techy,
  • fractious,
  • nettlesome,
  • unstable,
  • tetchy.
  •cross (noun)
  • study at irritable.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • full-term,
  • quirky,
  • kooky,
  • stillborn,
  • bad-tempered,
  • colicky.
  •
  • grumpy,
  • outlandish,
  • newborn,
  • peculiar,
  • perverse,
  • idiosyncratic,
  • freakish,
  • fretful,
  • grouchy,
  • waspish,
  • querulous,
  • bizarre,
  • eccentric.
  •
  • weird,
  • odd,
  • unnatural,
  • strange.
  •
  • quaint.
  •
  • curious,
  • unusual.
  •
  • erratic,
  • singular.

Paraphrases for Cranky:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    nervous.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    crabby, grumpy, grouchy, high-strung, jittery, eccentric, edgy, jumpy, fussy.

Antonyms for Cranky:

• adj.

  • in bad mood
    happy, amiable, cheerful, nice, pleasant.
  • Other antonyms:
    customary, long-suffering, complaisant, frequent, unneurotic, handy, usual, everyday, clear, standard, average, accommodating, gregarious, happy-go-lucky, easygoing, balanced, useful, friendly, sociable, unremarkable, functional, commonplace, ordinary, reasonable, habitual, cordial, predictable, wonted, rational, forbearing, garden, tolerant, good-humored, conventional, practical, understanding, regular, judicious, common, conservative, companionable, conformist, routine, stoic, expected, relaxed, well-adjusted, serviceable, prosaic, stable, sound, workaday, extroverted, uncomplaining, typical, obliging, practicable, unexceptional, run-of-the-mill, carefree, laid-back, outgoing, wise, healthy, sensible, patient.

Homophones for Cranky:

• cringe, care a hang, ceremonious, churning, cryonic, crooning, crowning, cormous, creaminess, corneous, carnage, corn whiskey, co-occurrence, caranx, casuarinaceae, coherency, crown saw, carnegie, carnegiea, cernuous, cornice, curing, cream sauce, crown monkey, ceramic, corn whisky, cocksureness, cormose, cremains, crowing, carancha, Croo Monkey, chironomus, cornus, ceramics, corn cake, crying, cornhusk, coronach, chronic, crank, chiromance, cooccurring, crunch, chorionic, charming, cornish, cronus, currency, cornaceae, chariness, cheering, cheremis, chiromancy, cronk, crankcase, cranch, crunchy, cheremiss, crew neck, coherence, craunch, currawong, cryonics, cream cheese, ceruminous, caring.