What is another word for curmudgeonly?
1287 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ kˈɜːməd͡ʒənli], [ kˈɜːmədʒənli], [ k_ˈɜː_m_ə_dʒ_ə_n_l_i]
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Synonyms for Curmudgeonly:
adj.
• all (adjective) • crotchety (adjective)- cranky,
- difficult,
- obstreperous,
- cross-grained,
- crabby,
- cantankerous,
- eccentric,
- ornery,
- unusual,
- testy,
- grouchy,
- Crossgrained,
- odd,
- disagreeable,
- peevish,
- bearish,
- vinegary,
- contrary,
- obstinate,
- waspy,
- queer,
- waspish,
- cross,
- awkward,
- grumpy.
- avaricious,
- unwasteful,
- chary,
- saving,
- practical,
- thrifty,
- meager,
- prudent,
- money-saving,
- niggardly,
- close,
- time-saving,
- mean,
- pennypinching,
- parsimonious,
- Skimping,
- penny-pinching,
- closefisted,
- watchful,
- efficient,
- spare,
- timesaving,
- sparing,
- circumspect,
- Scrimping,
- provident,
- frugal,
- cost-effective,
- penny-wise,
- tight,
- work-saving,
- prudential,
- on the rims,
- canny,
- miserly,
- methodical.
- surly,
- business-minded,
- Ungiving,
- hardfisted,
- niggard,
- stingy,
- Pinchpenny,
- economical,
- pennywise,
- penurious,
- crotchety.
n.
• curmudgeonly (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words:- cut,
- itchy,
- barbarian,
- riled,
- fell,
- bighearted,
- entail,
- dissenting,
- unaired,
- atrabilious,
- puritanic,
- save up,
- dictatorial,
- ill-chosen,
- excess,
- frosty,
- badly,
- four flush,
- tight-laced,
- outlandish,
- burred,
- rakish,
- closing curtain,
- grate,
- sulfurous,
- track,
- atrocious,
- merry,
- distinct,
- brassy,
- niggling,
- lemonlike,
- poove,
- buirdly,
- deaden,
- pixilated,
- jaunty,
- swell,
- penetrative,
- tender,
- inept,
- frightful,
- salve,
- hard-bitten,
- particular,
- threatening,
- imperious,
- make unnecessary,
- sensible,
- back breaker,
- earnest,
- blistering,
- bucolic,
- stabbing,
- wet,
- cut across,
- muttering,
- unforgiving,
- rough in,
- sincere,
- screwball,
- nagging,
- bum,
- neat,
- character,
- short-circuit,
- tenacious,
- sharp-worded,
- flash,
- swelled,
- cheeseparing,
- diminished,
- tartness,
- closely,
- acidic,
- scotch whiskey,
- spiffy,
- peril,
- complaintive,
- rancour,
- clumsy,
- murmuration,
- unconscionable,
- nail down,
- carry through,
- melancholy,
- off-key,
- nut,
- bastardly,
- chicken feed,
- economy,
- pissed off,
- confining,
- serious,
- sculpt,
- vulturine,
- squalid,
- chalk,
- nettled,
- acidity,
- raptorial,
- sozzled,
- slip,
- pinched,
- ill at ease,
- erratic,
- peg down,
- pragmatic,
- jolting,
- taking hold,
- shortsighted,
- gaudy,
- specialize,
- foul,
- battery-acid,
- pissed,
- cutting off,
- ice,
- contestant,
- grave accent,
- whispering,
- dissenter,
- inexorable,
- cover,
- acidulent,
- cagy,
- conclusion,
- scant,
- low,
- overstrung,
- fairy,
- misanthropical,
- uncut,
- dogged,
- awful,
- stark,
- liverish,
- slight,
- reprehensible,
- endanger,
- thrift,
- heterodox,
- rasping,
- inexpensive,
- sting,
- lively,
- conclude,
- reprobate,
- rancid,
- down in the mouth,
- small-minded,
- parsimony,
- bunglesome,
- unappeasable,
- gall,
- delivery,
- biliary,
- corking,
- fast,
- zen,
- humble,
- harassed,
- malt whiskey,
- meanspirited,
- remaining,
- relieve,
- impulsive,
- warring,
- sore,
- unsmooth,
- myopic,
- economise,
- hybridization,
- nettlesome,
- nipper,
- insomniac,
- raspy,
- smashing,
- prominent,
- pouf,
- spoilt,
- moth-eaten,
- busy,
- bizarre,
- styptic,
- curtly,
- humbly,
- graceless,
- specialise,
- autocratic,
- bold,
- minacious,
- freaky,
- rumbling,
- approach,
- exquisite,
- groovy,
- surplus,
- rowdy,
- hateful,
- sheer,
- pane,
- sticky,
- tacky,
- gravelly,
- persistent,
- narrow down,
- brisk,
- suddenly,
- criminal,
- black,
- sleepless,
- mad,
- despiteful,
- scrapper,
- nut case,
- embarrassing,
- bring through,
- crease,
- petty larceny,
- seizing,
- give up,
- burry,
- exorbitant,
- fuddled,
- diffraction grating,
- besotted,
- pungent,
- openhanded,
- fancy woman,
- strange,
- finish,
- cheesy,
- bestial,
- fighter,
- closing,
- glowering,
- outspoken,
- part with,
- scrunch,
- sick,
- badness,
- acetose,
- vital,
- unawares,
- methamphetamine,
- erosive,
- prideful,
- jittery,
- mincing,
- in straitened circumstances,
- heretical,
- menacing,
- child,
- raffish,
- blind drunk,
- delicate,
- brutish,
- prim out,
- loaded,
- authoritarian,
- sharply,
- kid,
- contract,
- narrow-minded,
- peeved,
- gruesome,
- extra,
- supercilious,
- minor,
- untitled,
- full-grown,
- superman,
- foil,
- fiddling,
- wicked,
- dispirited,
- life-threatening,
- twee,
- depressed,
- thorny,
- wrinkle,
- sober,
- deoxyephedrine,
- hybridize,
- unornamented,
- nastily,
- airless,
- left,
- effective,
- heavy,
- objector,
- vociferous,
- weighty,
- sensitized,
- trivial,
- funny,
- susurrant,
- soaked,
- hypersensitized,
- billboard,
- great,
- bully,
- squiffy,
- knifelike,
- shut down,
- forbiddance,
- harried,
- lowly,
- hard up,
- freehanded,
- scummy,
- lancinate,
- liberal,
- vainglorious,
- natty,
- ban,
- zigzag,
- interbreeding,
- hard-nosed,
- soused,
- bounderish,
- spruce,
- free-spoken,
- fidgety,
- bumpy,
- unmanageable,
- prostitute,
- stubborn,
- ungentle,
- bare,
- punk,
- miffed,
- fierce,
- poisonous,
- madcap,
- curly-grained,
- precipitous,
- newspaper clipping,
- secretive,
- stringent,
- picky,
- piddling,
- trash,
- strong-growing,
- scratch,
- grievous,
- redemptive,
- bloody-minded,
- ending,
- pestered,
- base,
- dingy,
- intolerant,
- abrasive,
- engrave,
- signify,
- imply,
- keep,
- fast-growing,
- junior-grade,
- salvage,
- lemony,
- raw,
- acetous,
- baffle,
- pass over,
- fully grown,
- disconsolate,
- knockout,
- fricative,
- flyblown,
- pin down,
- deliverance,
- chinchy,
- crispy,
- shoddy,
- impecunious,
- alert,
- end,
- dapper,
- horrifying,
- divisive,
- outrageous,
- stand for,
- dispense with,
- draw close,
- low-down,
- murmur,
- unrelenting,
- queen,
- hard-hitting,
- astringent drug,
- lay aside,
- turn,
- gloomful,
- abruptly,
- superfluous,
- smashed,
- horrible,
- sluggish,
- beefy,
- methamphetamine hydrochloride,
- wretched,
- boastfully,
- close down,
- press cutting,
- brusk,
- expectant,
- ferment,
- strapping,
- nappy,
- stiff,
- petit larceny,
- slimy,
- scurvily,
- hypersensitised,
- meagerly,
- constringe,
- decisive,
- rancor,
- strain,
- banning,
- economic,
- tightlipped,
- dot,
- esurient,
- old,
- sensitised,
- virtually,
- dismal,
- parsimoniousness,
- off-the-wall,
- sleazy,
- crank up,
- bossy,
- militant,
- rescue,
- whore,
- spiny,
- glooming,
- roughly,
- economize,
- garish,
- prissy,
- nigh,
- dear,
- macabre,
- shrill,
- inscribe,
- laconic,
- rum,
- blatant,
- piercingly,
- almost,
- lament,
- incompatible,
- ravening,
- straightlaced,
- disdainful,
- hybridisation,
- deadly,
- mingy,
- gravid,
- penetrating,
- rattling,
- provincial,
- most,
- agonistic,
- medium,
- straitlaced,
- numb,
- average,
- cracking,
- scottish,
- nance,
- frizzly,
- steep,
- edged,
- predatory,
- nippy,
- nervy,
- scold,
- acidulate,
- lowering,
- yokelish,
- ticklish,
- reverse,
- voracious,
- scrimy,
- modest,
- slopped,
- small fry,
- dominating,
- square-toed,
- free,
- uneven,
- vituperative,
- mussitation,
- clear-cut,
- self-aggrandising,
- preserve,
- shrewd,
- hard,
- disconnected,
- high-and-mighty,
- tomb,
- short-change,
- spiritualist,
- come on,
- fruitcake,
- sloshed,
- acuate,
- unpolished,
- pocket-size,
- ruckle,
- unrepentant,
- spirant,
- potato chip,
- nestling,
- low-spirited,
- glass,
- scotch malt whiskey,
- flaky,
- inadequate,
- despicable,
- window pane,
- virtual,
- war-ridden,
- pocket-sized,
- stern,
- crowing,
- fold,
- meretricious,
- drear,
- expose,
- unyielding,
- pansy,
- pie-eyed,
- ratty,
- with child,
- adverse,
- preservation,
- span,
- supererogatory,
- sourness,
- unpaired,
- whimsical,
- handsome,
- shabu,
- coarse,
- magisterial,
- unenviable,
- livery,
- combatant,
- peculiar,
- barbellate,
- perverted,
- kinky,
- closemouthed,
- whiney,
- gay,
- victorian,
- redundant,
- snug,
- sulphurous,
- forthright,
- methedrine,
- spoil,
- tense up,
- nifty,
- ascetical,
- dark,
- unconsidered,
- crispen,
- flake,
- hybridizing,
- unexpended,
- crossbreeding,
- unmatched,
- lady of pleasure,
- envious,
- fry,
- recalcitrant,
- specify,
- misanthropic,
- prehensile,
- scratchy,
- nipping,
- candid,
- supersensitised,
- opprobrious,
- ravenous,
- magnanimous,
- antipathetic,
- chip,
- uptight,
- faultfinding,
- footling,
- draw near,
- goth,
- recusant,
- barbarous,
- smutty,
- brainish,
- downhearted,
- dirty,
- miserable,
- haughty,
- grumble,
- crossbreed,
- stopping point,
- straight-laced,
- sorry,
- cock-a-hoop,
- poor,
- penniless,
- large,
- good,
- adult,
- lowbred,
- scupper,
- bitterly,
- secondary,
- ungainly,
- tangy,
- cagey,
- fagot,
- plastered,
- protester,
- clipping,
- oddball,
- discreet,
- case,
- dandy,
- fickle,
- dull,
- fag,
- finis,
- astute,
- unworthy,
- underbred,
- sibilant,
- hybrid,
- antipathetical,
- tearaway,
- small-scale,
- whipping,
- refractory,
- dreary,
- snarky,
- starter,
- cockeyed,
- piffling,
- redeeming,
- skinny,
- compressed,
- flakey,
- searching,
- somber,
- straight-from-the-shoulder,
- working girl,
- scotch whisky,
- flashy,
- tiddler,
- crude,
- vile,
- supersensitized,
- fifth wheel,
- bounteous,
- careful,
- counter,
- spare part,
- malt whisky,
- poof,
- shortstop,
- devouring,
- vinegarish,
- unregenerate,
- sculpture,
- sweep,
- giving,
- mordacious,
- loutish,
- vulturous,
- mean value,
- baleful,
- inflexible,
- meth,
- crown of thorns,
- roiled,
- dangerous,
- approximate,
- write,
- woman of the street,
- contrarious,
- beastly,
- cost-efficient,
- minatory,
- feisty,
- unsympathetic,
- redeem,
- ascetic,
- geek,
- bleak,
- toast,
- forged,
- abject,
- curious,
- dashing,
- finale,
- stint,
- think of,
- uneasy,
- closelipped,
- trim,
- tippy,
- lower-ranking,
- prim up,
- spoiled,
- bristly,
- well-nigh,
- natural,
- overcritical,
- vitriolic,
- beggarly,
- hybridise,
- allergic,
- needlelike,
- outre,
- antsy,
- inimical,
- drab,
- transversal,
- sporting lady,
- discontent,
- keep open,
- crummy,
- unmated,
- forgetful,
- unretentive,
- usurious,
- scanty,
- priggish,
- work,
- clever,
- zippy,
- sinister,
- shortly,
- about,
- depraved,
- tinny,
- point-blank,
- briery,
- wayward,
- disputative,
- go up,
- acutely,
- bragging,
- faithful,
- frank,
- close up,
- light,
- wavy-grained,
- basely,
- battler,
- cut through,
- condemnable,
- deplorable,
- supernumerary,
- down,
- neanderthal,
- obdurate,
- cyprian,
- evil,
- opposite,
- scotch malt whisky,
- gimcrack,
- deliver,
- lienal,
- frizzy,
- unsound,
- ungentlemanlike,
- rocky,
- stung,
- impetuous,
- hard-boiled,
- bolshy,
- steamed,
- interbreed,
- unembellished,
- spanking,
- grabby,
- bristled,
- stinting,
- niminy-piminy,
- crackpot,
- seedy,
- high-risk,
- agonistical,
- oafish,
- left over,
- sniffy,
- nearly,
- vauntingly,
- boastful,
- scurrilous,
- restive,
- freakish,
- braggart,
- bountiful,
- prehension,
- unhumorous,
- blotto,
- jumpy,
- leftover,
- homophile,
- piercing,
- acetify,
- dead,
- faggot,
- meagre,
- peachy,
- enceinte,
- youngster,
- venomous,
- swinish,
- grisly,
- last,
- off,
- get over,
- bitingly,
- risky,
- continuant,
- battleful,
- blue,
- crisscross,
- clamorous,
- unforesightful,
- benumb,
- grownup,
- lancinating,
- frustrate,
- belittled,
- lilliputian,
- bawd,
- rough out,
- braggy,
- terrible,
- cumbersome,
- ghastly,
- sourish,
- whiny,
- wolfish,
- self-aggrandizing,
- acrid,
- scrimpy,
- hold open,
- unmannered,
- speculative,
- vindictive,
- inapt,
- snorty,
- unfit,
- plainspoken,
- picayune,
- crinkle,
- harlot,
- transverse,
- filthy,
- rumble,
- mark,
- crocked,
- think,
- objectionable,
- regretful,
- sturdy,
- slap-up,
- seamy,
- film editing,
- press clipping,
- sedate,
- stuffy,
- uncongenial,
- loud,
- primitive,
- cruddy,
- lordly,
- cussed,
- clamant,
- ominous,
- come together,
- relentless,
- come near,
- worthless,
- crossing,
- approximative,
- swaggering,
- have in mind,
- jolty,
- rummy,
- scrunch up,
- bang-up,
- thwart,
- jealous,
- cocotte,
- loony toons,
- defective,
- constrict,
- acute,
- shut,
- get across,
- carving,
- shaver,
- taut,
- minuscule,
- trashy,
- humorless,
- false,
- not bad,
- uncollectible,
- bluff out,
- dose,
- jejune,
- boisterous,
- satirical,
- acidify,
- singular,
- tatty,
- downcast,
- subaltern,
- nonconcentric,
- turned,
- hardheaded,
- intersect,
- edacious,
- thinning,
- tawdry,
- traverse,
- briary,
- techy,
- pertinacious,
- rigorous,
- plain,
- eccentric person,
- pull through,
- savage,
- close-fitting,
- discriminating,
- grown,
- spartan,
- tough,
- type,
- roughshod,
- mutter,
- factious,
- score,
- neandertal,
- bilk,
- splenic,
- raring,
- avid,
- bitterness,
- fill up,
- minute,
- intend,
- scots,
- peckish,
- brute,
- thwartwise.
- contentious,
- criticizing,
- huffy,
- acidulous,
- discourteous,
- astringent,
- acerbic,
- finicky,
- disputatious,
- raucous,
- harsh,
- nasty,
- cruel,
- argumentative,
- stinging,
- dissentious,
- in a pique,
- thin-skinned,
- dyspeptic,
- terse,
- ill-bred,
- scrooge,
- scrimp,
- censorious,
- fussy,
- finical,
- blunt,
- inconsiderate,
- resentment,
- grating,
- hypersensitive,
- peremptory,
- grouch,
- bluff,
- hot-blooded,
- vexed,
- grump,
- antagonistic,
- belligerent,
- biting,
- crabbed,
- in high dudgeon,
- murmuring,
- strident,
- tightly,
- grave,
- discontented,
- tense,
- choleric,
- tyke,
- sour,
- bilious,
- tart,
- trenchant,
- acid,
- abusive,
- petulant,
- satiric,
- aggressive,
- fretful,
- brutal,
- mordant,
- complaining,
- sarcastic,
- corrosive,
- barbed,
- hoarse,
- unladylike,
- scotch,
- high-strung,
- virulent,
- bellicose,
- incisive,
- hostile,
- ill-tempered,
- quarrelsome,
- grudging,
- ungracious,
- curt,
- crisp,
- disapproving,
- and Irish cranky,
- explosive,
- abrupt,
- perverse,
- sombre,
- impatient,
- prickly,
- rough,
- miser,
- ugly,
- huffish,
- keen,
- little,
- grim,
- gloomy,
- caustic,
- querulous,
- Squabbling,
- cynical,
- impolite,
- strait-laced,
- save,
- tetchy,
- whining,
- rude,
- bad,
- supersensitive,
- grousing,
- annoyed,
- cutting,
- stroppy,
- unmannerly,
- big,
- sharp,
- Hard-fisted,
- boor,
- unpleasant,
- litigious,
- obnoxious,
- quick-tempered,
- sullen,
- husky,
- uncivil,
- churl,
- morose,
- bad-humoured,
- small,
- dissentient,
- short,
- carping,
- skimp,
- tike,
- irritated,
- spiteful,
- highly strung,
- brusque,
- peasant,
- solemn,
- splenetic,
- scathing,
- bad-mannered,
- captious,
- narrowly,
- saturnine,
- prim,
- critical,
- snappish,
- ungentlemanly,
- bitter,
- hotheaded,
- grumbling,
- crank,
- gauche,
- snappy,
- shirty,
- uncompromising,
- meanly,
- bad-natured,
- unfriendly,
- Cavilling,
- churlish,
- crusted,
- forbidding,
- Piqued,
- dour,
- po-faced,
- Snarling,
- acerb,
- skinflint,
- sulky,
- volatile,
- humourless,
- prudish,
- petty,
- austere,
- pettish,
- overbearing,
- crosspatch,
- tightfisted,
- bitching,
- embittered,
- vicious,
- shrewish,
- capricious,
- acrimonious,
- severe,
- frowning,
- sardonic,
- dissident,
- excitable,
- grumpish,
- cheap,
- burly,
- Fault-finding,
- currish,
- over-particular,
- shabby,
- hypercritical,
- edgy,
- puritanical,
- crustlike,
- Resenting,
- pugnacious,
- combative.
How to use "Curmudgeonly" in context?
When we hear the word "curmudgeonly," we think of a grumpy old man. But the word has a more positive meaning too. A curmudgeonly person is someone who is resistant to change, and who is pessimistic about the future. This type of personality is often admired because it is principled, and it has a deep well of insight.
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