What is another word for ornery?
864 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ˈɔːnəɹi], [ ˈɔːnəɹi], [ ˈɔː_n_ə_ɹ_i]
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Similar words for ornery:
- adverse (adjective)
- bad-tempered (adjective)
- balky (adjective)
- belligerent (adjective)
- boorish (adjective)
- cantankerous (adjective)
- churlish (adjective)
- combative (adjective)
- contradictory (adjective)
- contrarious (adjective)
- contrary (adjective)
- cranky (adjective)
- crotchety (adjective)
- disobedient (adjective)
- feisty (adjective)
- fractious (adjective)
- fretful (adjective)
- hateful (adjective)
- hostile (adjective)
- ill-natured (adjective)
- incompliant (adjective)
- indocile (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- malicious (adjective)
- mean (adjective)
- nasty (adjective)
- obnoxious (adjective)
- opposite (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- peevish (adjective)
- quarrelsome (adjective)
- restive (adjective)
- sarcastic (adjective)
- spiteful (adjective)
- stubborn (adjective)
- sulky (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- temperamental (adjective)
- testy (adjective)
- touchy (adjective)
- truculent (adjective)
- unbendable (adjective)
- uncompliant (adjective)
- unruly (adjective)
- venomous (adjective)
- vicious (adjective)
- wanton (adjective)
- wayward (adjective)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Ornery:
adj.
• adverse (adjective)- more oppugning,
- dis advantageous,
- un-fortunate,
- un fortunate,
- un willing,
- un friendlier,
- un luckier,
- down side,
- un propitious,
- un-luckier,
- un friendliest,
- dis-advantageous,
- un-lucky,
- allergic to,
- in-opportune,
- un-willing,
- un lucky,
- un-friendliest,
- un-friendly,
- most oppugning,
- in opportune,
- down on,
- un luckiest,
- un-friendlier.
- obstinate,
- in-tractable,
- un-predictable,
- in disposed,
- un manageable,
- immovable,
- in-flexible,
- most negativistic,
- un-bending,
- stubborn,
- in-disposed,
- in tractable,
- un bending,
- more negativistic,
- un-manageable,
- in flexible,
- un predictable.
- have bone pick,
- have chip on shoulder,
- have it for,
- more battling,
- have bone to pick,
- flippest,
- have in for,
- most battling,
- have chip shoulder,
- hot tempered,
- flip,
- on outs,
- have a bone pick.
- more out of line,
- ill mannered,
- more inurbane,
- most bad mannered,
- more out-of-order,
- more ill bred,
- more illbred,
- gruff,
- most lowbred,
- more bearish,
- most badmannered,
- un educated,
- most out of line,
- most out of order,
- un-couth,
- bad mannered,
- more lowbred,
- in-urbane,
- most bearish,
- un couth,
- most swinish,
- un-poised,
- un poised,
- un-civilized,
- more bad-mannered,
- more bad mannered,
- most ill-bred,
- most out-of-line,
- badmannered,
- un cultured,
- un-refined,
- un-gracious,
- most ill bred,
- most clownish,
- more out-of-line,
- more unpoised,
- most inurbane,
- un-cultured,
- Unpoised,
- un-educated,
- most out-of-order,
- in urbane,
- un polished,
- more badmannered,
- Inurbane,
- most bad-mannered,
- uneducated,
- un-polished,
- most cloddish,
- most clodhopping,
- oafish,
- un gracious,
- most unpoised,
- most illbred,
- more clodhopping,
- more ill-bred,
- more out of order,
- more clownish,
- more swinish,
- more cloddish,
- un civilized,
- illmannered,
- un refined,
- ill bred.
- illhumored,
- dis agreeable,
- more ill-humored,
- most ill-humored,
- more illhumored,
- more vinegary,
- more vinegarish,
- dis-agreeable,
- bad tempered,
- most vinegary,
- badtempered,
- ill humored,
- more ill humored,
- most vinegarish,
- most illhumored,
- most ill humored.
- more unneighborly,
- most cussed,
- dis courteous,
- un civil,
- most unneighborly,
- un-neighborly,
- un neighborly,
- un-civil,
- un-sociable,
- dis-courteous,
- illtempered,
- un-mannerly,
- more cussed,
- un mannerly.
- more hawkish,
- more fire-eating,
- more trigger-happy,
- most ructious,
- most fire eating,
- most fireeating,
- most fire-eating,
- more fireeating,
- fireeating,
- triggerhappy,
- more fire eating,
- more gladiatorial,
- more ructious,
- most triggerhappy,
- most trigger-happy,
- most hawkish.
- counter-active,
- anti-thetical,
- more paradoxical,
- in-consistent,
- co-nest,
- re verse,
- in consistent,
- in-compatible,
- re-verse,
- most reverse,
- most nullifying,
- more negating,
- more antithetic,
- anti-thetic,
- counter active,
- in congruous,
- coner,
- anti thetical,
- co nest,
- anti thetic,
- most anti,
- more reverse,
- more anti,
- most negating,
- most antithetic,
- conest,
- in-congruous,
- in compatible,
- most agin,
- more agin.
- dis sentient,
- most contrariant,
- Non-conforming,
- more wrongheaded,
- in-subordinate,
- more recusant,
- anti-pathetic,
- most dissentient,
- most recusant,
- dis-sentient,
- most clashing,
- in subordinate,
- anti pathetic,
- non conformist,
- more contrariant,
- most wrongheaded,
- more dissentient,
- more clashing.
- got on wrong side of bed,
- more badhumored,
- bad humored,
- more bad humored,
- got up wrong side of bed,
- like bear,
- got on wrong side bed,
- most bad-humored,
- most badhumored,
- got up on wrong side bed,
- more bad-humored,
- got up wrong side bed,
- badhumored,
- quicktempered,
- got wrong side bed,
- out sorts,
- got wrong side of bed,
- got upon wrong side of bed.
- cross grained,
- more crossgrained,
- cross-grained,
- most cross grained,
- more curmudgeonly,
- waspier,
- most crossgrained,
- un usual,
- waspiest,
- curmudgeonly,
- Crossgrained,
- un-usual,
- waspy,
- most cross-grained.
- short tempered,
- more caviling,
- shorttempered,
- un easy,
- wreckest,
- un-easiest,
- un easier,
- most caviling,
- un-easier,
- most splenetic,
- un easiest.
- de spiteful,
- most uncool,
- malicious,
- more uncool,
- de-testable,
- more shuddersome,
- shuddersome,
- un cool,
- un desirable,
- de testable,
- most shuddersome,
- de-spiteful,
- uncool,
- un-desirable,
- dis-gusting,
- un-cool,
- in famous,
- dis gusting.
- un kind,
- un-kind,
- most illdisposed,
- dis approving,
- dis-approving,
- un-favorable,
- un welcoming,
- ill disposed,
- most unwelcoming,
- most disapproving,
- illdisposed,
- in hospitable,
- un favorable,
- un sympathetic,
- more ill disposed,
- more ill-disposed,
- un-kindest,
- un-kinder,
- un-welcoming,
- more unwelcoming,
- most oppugnant,
- most ill disposed,
- more illdisposed,
- un kinder,
- in-hospitable,
- un kindest.
- dis-obliging,
- most tempersome,
- more tempersome,
- un-pleasant,
- ill natured,
- dis obliging,
- illnatured,
- un pleasant.
- more brassbound,
- un compromising,
- muler,
- un-compromising,
- most brassbound,
- in-compliant,
- in compliant,
- un relenting.
- evil minded,
- beastliest,
- greeneyed,
- most bad-natured,
- more bad natured,
- more badnatured,
- more bad-natured,
- bad natured,
- venomous,
- green eyed,
- beastlier,
- badnatured,
- evilminded,
- most ill-disposed,
- most badnatured,
- most bad natured.
- grouchy,
- grumpy,
- contemptible,
- ignoble,
- hard-nosed,
- surly,
- irritable,
- rotten,
- unfriendly,
- crabby,
- crusty,
- sour,
- disagreeable,
- ill-tempered.
- mephitic,
- un-holy,
- un cleanlier,
- un godliest,
- bummest,
- yucky,
- more polluted,
- dis tasteful,
- un cleanliest,
- un cleanly,
- un clean,
- un appetizing,
- most polluted,
- un godlier,
- un-cleaner,
- un-cleanly,
- objectionable,
- un-holier,
- un-cleanest,
- soiled,
- un godly,
- unholy,
- un-appetizing,
- un cleanest,
- uncleanly,
- un cleaner,
- un holier,
- un-cleanliest,
- un-holiest,
- un holiest,
- un-cleanlier,
- un holy,
- un-godliest,
- dis-tasteful,
- un-godly,
- un-godlier.
- in-sufferable,
- pain neck,
- dis-likable,
- most dislikable,
- re prehensible,
- pillest,
- dis-pleasing,
- re-prehensible,
- more hateable,
- off color,
- pain the neck,
- dis likable,
- most hateable,
- dis pleasing,
- more dislikable,
- pain in neck,
- heelest,
- offcolor,
- in sufferable.
- more differing,
- flipside,
- un-connected,
- un-similar,
- violative,
- un similar,
- most flip-side,
- more obverse,
- more facing,
- un-alike,
- un related,
- more vis a vis,
- most unalike,
- most differing,
- most vis-a-vis,
- most contrasted,
- dis-similar,
- in verse,
- in dependent,
- most facing,
- cross wise,
- most unsimilar,
- most fronting,
- in-dependent,
- most contrapositive,
- more contrapositive,
- dis similar,
- flip-side,
- vis a vis,
- most flipside,
- most vis a vis,
- most flip side,
- diametrically opposed,
- more fronting,
- un-related,
- more unsimilar,
- more contrasted,
- retro grade,
- re-versed,
- un alike,
- in-verse,
- more flip-side,
- more violative,
- more vis-a-vis,
- most obverse,
- cross-wise,
- unalike,
- more unalike,
- unsimilar.
- odious,
- dissentious,
- testy,
- obnoxious,
- sarcastic,
- big mouth,
- boorish,
- have a bone to pick,
- hostile,
- wrecker,
- hateable,
- crotchety,
- no go,
- churlish,
- vinegarish,
- die hard,
- nasty,
- lowbred,
- malefic,
- dyspeptic,
- pouty,
- out of line,
- inhumane,
- contrarious,
- out-of-order,
- loutish,
- contrary,
- set in one's ways,
- peevish,
- illbred,
- Oppugnant,
- cloddish,
- non-conformist,
- on the outs,
- fire-eating,
- ill-bred,
- mule,
- antithetic,
- hawkish,
- dislikable,
- warrer,
- anti,
- brassbound,
- clownish,
- balky,
- self-willed,
- cantankerous,
- ill-disposed,
- vicious,
- recusant,
- truculent,
- contradictory,
- Perturbable,
- out-of-line,
- negativistic,
- weisenheiming,
- wanton,
- flipper,
- cat-and-dog,
- cranky,
- opposite,
- Piller,
- gladiatorial,
- bad-humored,
- feisty,
- have it in for,
- have for,
- uncompliant,
- at loggerheads,
- grousing,
- out-of-sorts,
- resentful,
- adverse,
- head-strong,
- hottempered,
- vinegary,
- singleminded,
- Contrariant,
- like a bear,
- quarrelsome,
- ructious,
- unwelcoming,
- Viperish,
- touchy,
- sullen,
- Clodhopping,
- unprovoked,
- paradoxical,
- scoffing,
- indocile,
- Viperous,
- sourpussed,
- unneighborly,
- hateful,
- wrongheaded,
- vituperous,
- smart alecky,
- spiteful,
- unbendable,
- swinish,
- bad-mannered,
- Heeler,
- bearish,
- bad-natured,
- waspish,
- got up on wrong side of bed,
- AGIN,
- Incompliant,
- scrappy,
- restive,
- motiveless,
- dissentient,
- stiff-necked,
- belligerent,
- bundle of nerves.
- fault finding,
- more whining,
- ogrest,
- more grousing,
- most out of sorts,
- Fretting,
- more splenetic,
- most grousing,
- most whining,
- more fretting,
- more out-of-sorts,
- more out of sorts,
- most growling,
- most fretting,
- ogrer,
- more growling,
- most out-of-sorts.
- more cat-and-dog,
- cat and dog,
- more dissentious,
- most cat-and-dog,
- warrest,
- most gladiatorial,
- most brawling,
- more brawling,
- most dissentious,
- more cat and dog,
- most cat and dog.
- more chaffing,
- more snarling,
- more twitting,
- most twitting,
- more needling,
- dis-illusioned,
- dis respectful,
- most weisenheiming,
- more taunting,
- more weisenheiming,
- dis illusioned,
- smartalecky,
- dis-respectful.
- most selfwilled,
- more stiff-necked,
- set ones ways,
- most stiff-necked,
- set one's ways,
- most stiffnecked,
- set in one ways,
- more self-willed,
- set one ways,
- un reasonable,
- self willed,
- more stiffnecked,
- un-reasonable,
- in-exorable,
- most self-willed,
- un-shakable,
- set in ways,
- single minded,
- stiff necked,
- most stiff necked,
- most self willed,
- more self willed,
- set in ones ways,
- set ways.
- more sourpussed,
- most brooding,
- most sulking,
- poutiest,
- more sulking,
- more brooding,
- de-pressed,
- with drawn,
- most sourpussed,
- poutier,
- de pressed,
- with-drawn,
- more moping.
- most perturbable,
- pre-carious,
- un safer,
- un-safe,
- pre carious,
- more perturbable,
- more oversensitive,
- un-safer,
- un safe,
- un safest,
- bundle nerves,
- un-safest,
- most oversensitive.
- in-humane,
- more cowing,
- co wing,
- more terrorizing,
- more invective,
- most terrorizing,
- most browbeating,
- most cowing,
- most vituperous,
- co-wing,
- in human,
- most invective,
- in-human,
- more vituperous.
- in temperate,
- in-temperate,
- in-corrigible,
- un-controllable,
- out control,
- un controllable,
- un-governable,
- in corrigible,
- out line.
- most unprovoked,
- more motiveless,
- un-asked,
- un juster,
- most double crossing,
- un-justified,
- un fairer,
- un fairest,
- un-provoked,
- un-justifiable,
- un-justest,
- un provoked,
- un justified,
- more double-crossing,
- most motiveless,
- un fair,
- most double-crossing,
- more double crossing,
- more unprovoked,
- uncalledfor,
- un-fairest,
- un-fair,
- un justifiable,
- un-juster,
- un-just,
- most doublecrossing,
- un just,
- un asked,
- un-fairer,
- un justest.
n.
Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words (noun):- huffish,
- recalcitrant,
- insubordinate,
- resounding,
- tetchy,
- wild,
- choleric,
- fractious,
- cheesy,
- shoddy,
- bombastic,
- ill-humoured,
- cross,
- flowery,
- rotund,
- poor,
- temperamental,
- cussed,
- short-tempered,
- mean,
- bilious,
- bad,
- ugly,
- Sulphurize,
- querulous,
- wicked,
- tatty,
- bloody-minded,
- quick-tempered,
- against the grain,
- vile,
- malign,
- stuffy,
- stentorian,
- splenetic,
- grandiloquent,
- obstreperous,
- oratorical,
- noxious,
- edgy,
- sharp,
- sleazy,
- harsh,
- Euphuistic,
- aureate,
- iniquitous,
- sulky,
- irascible,
- round,
- refractory,
- petulant,
- satiric,
- Spleeny,
- catty,
- on edge,
- orotund,
- sonorous,
- rubbishy,
- contumacious,
- baleful,
- ringing,
- naughty,
- captious,
- cheap,
- nasties,
- invidious,
- loud,
- magniloquent,
- Breachy,
- maleficent,
- troublesome,
- defiant,
- huffy,
- evil,
- common,
- acid,
- bitchy,
- crabbed,
- malignant,
- Resty,
- untoward,
- plangent,
- bad-tempered,
- ill-humored,
- vibrant,
- consonant,
- Cankered,
- hot-tempered,
- snappish,
- declamatory,
- paltry,
- base,
- harmful.
How to use "Ornery" in context?
The word "ornery" is a general word meaning difficult to manage, deal with, or provoke. It can be used as an adjective to describe someone who is temperamentally difficult to get along with, or as a noun to describe someone who behaves in a difficult or contentious manner.
The word derives from the Latin ornis, meaning "bird," andnery meaning "of or pertaining to a bird." It originally referred to a difficult or stubborn bird, or in general to a person who is difficult to manage or control.
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