Definition for Surly:

• Crabbed; cross; rude; gruff.

Synonyms for Surly:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • ugly.
  •bad-tempered (adjective)
  • ill-natured.
  •crotchety (adjective)
  • obstinate,
  • cross-grained,
  • bearish,
  • curmudgeonly.
  •gruff, bearish (adjective)
  • ill-mannered,
  • grouchy,
  • glum,
  • fractious,
  • churlish,
  • saturnine,
  • dour,
  • ungracious,
  • rude,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • cross,
  • ugly,
  • sulky,
  • sullen,
  • perverse,
  • discourteous,
  • boorish,
  • irritable,
  • testy,
  • uncivil,
  • ill-natured,
  • morose,
  • crusty,
  • brusque.
  •ill-tempered (adjective)
  • crabbed.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • crusty,
  • prickly,
  • huffy,
  • bellicose,
  • crabbed,
  • acerbic,
  • bearish,
  • cross,
  • bitchy,
  • churlish,
  • sour,
  • peevish,
  • bitter,
  • ill-tempered,
  • petulant,
  • acid,
  • irritable,
  • snappish,
  • crabby,
  • cranky,
  • spiteful,
  • petty,
  • irascible,
  • acrimonious,
  • caustic,
  • touchy,
  • cantankerous,
  • tart.
  •mean (adjective)
  • ornery.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • grim,
  • sullen,
  • grumpy,
  • sulky,
  • malevolent,
  • dour,
  • crabby,
  • glowering,
  • moody,
  • scowling,
  • fretful,
  • petulant,
  • mean,
  • grouchy,
  • long-faced,
  • ungenial,
  • cantankerous,
  • frowning,
  • hostile,
  • unfriendly,
  • broody,
  • cross,
  • dark,
  • sour,
  • obstinate,
  • noncooperative,
  • morose,
  • contrary,
  • Moping,
  • cynical,
  • dissociable,
  • melancholy,
  • gloomy,
  • unsociable,
  • beetle-browed,
  • pouty,
  • irascible,
  • glum,
  • dejected,
  • uncooperative.
  •tenebrific (adjective)
  • tenebrific.

• n.

  •
  • discourteous,
  • impolite,
  • ill-mannered,
  • rude.
  •morose (noun)
  • testy.
  •surly (noun)
  • ugly,
  • ill-natured.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • bad-tempered.
  •
  • waspish,
  • saturnine,
  • querulous,
  • rude,
  • ill-tempered.
  •
  • testy.
  •
  • disagreeable.
  •
  • snappy.
  •
  • nasty.
  •Other relevant words:
  • monster,
  • annoyed,
  • dyspeptic,
  • Grum,
  • atrocious,
  • austerely,
  • rusty,
  • aggressive,
  • violently,
  • Moodish,
  • nasty,
  • coarse,
  • grating,
  • dourly,
  • bad-mannered,
  • minatory,
  • black,
  • masher,
  • mopey,
  • feral,
  • curt,
  • obstreperous,
  • writer,
  • ill,
  • frightful,
  • rude,
  • bad-tempered,
  • churlishly,
  • ill-humored,
  • obnoxious,
  • pettish,
  • gloomily,
  • tool,
  • Inofficious,
  • baleful,
  • snappy,
  • harsh,
  • cruel,
  • cantankerously,
  • Grouty,
  • ornery,
  • unmannerly,
  • creature,
  • resentful,
  • Crustily,
  • hard,
  • fiend,
  • uncivilized,
  • sharp,
  • Uncandid,
  • huffish,
  • choleric,
  • puppet,
  • bad-natured,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • beastly,
  • beast,
  • austere,
  • disobliging,
  • lowering,
  • ugly,
  • inconsiderate,
  • grouchily,
  • contumelious,
  • trenchant,
  • sharply,
  • unrefined,
  • gauche,
  • terse,
  • gruffly,
  • Mumpish,
  • murky,
  • rugged,
  • rough-spoken,
  • gross,
  • boorish,
  • irritated,
  • lippy,
  • argumentative,
  • unworthy,
  • splenetic,
  • savage,
  • out of temper,
  • disagreeable,
  • bilious,
  • rough,
  • captious,
  • virulent,
  • barbarous,
  • belligerent,
  • brusque,
  • vile,
  • wildcat,
  • cavalier,
  • antagonistic,
  • ominous,
  • shocking,
  • invidious,
  • glumly,
  • acerb,
  • gruff,
  • venturous,
  • uncouth,
  • wolf,
  • brusquely,
  • venomous,
  • murkily,
  • ill-tempered,
  • snippy,
  • Piqued,
  • overbearing,
  • sullenly,
  • waspish,
  • Mopish,
  • ruthless,
  • fractious,
  • sternly,
  • truculent,
  • approximately,
  • acidulous,
  • discourteously,
  • slimy,
  • querulous,
  • Torvous,
  • shirty,
  • peremptory,
  • impolite,
  • ungraciously,
  • discourteous,
  • ubiquitous,
  • abrupt,
  • stormy,
  • hardy,
  • ferocious,
  • scathing,
  • clownish,
  • menacing,
  • out of humor,
  • cross-grained,
  • A,
  • fauna,
  • fierce,
  • severely,
  • Black-browed,
  • liverish,
  • sinister,
  • flush,
  • stroppy,
  • crudely,
  • Clodhopping,
  • ungentlemanly,
  • cruelly,
  • ill-natured,
  • coarsely,
  • roughly,
  • hoarsely,
  • testily,
  • Snarling,
  • unpleasant,
  • bluff,
  • disrespectful,
  • Pouting,
  • currish,
  • horrible,
  • vulgar,
  • sarcastic,
  • tenebrific,
  • uncultured,
  • unlovely,
  • Difficultly,
  • inhospitable,
  • blunt,
  • ill-bred,
  • Crabbedly,
  • saturnine,
  • temperamental,
  • severe,
  • unladylike,
  • forbidding,
  • snappishly,
  • inclement,
  • biting,
  • short,
  • wight,
  • Dumpish,
  • contentious,
  • loutish,
  • despicable,
  • hardly,
  • ill-mannered,
  • brute,
  • violent,
  • morosely,
  • unkind,
  • not smooth,
  • vicious,
  • brief,
  • unhelpful,
  • stinging,
  • horrifying,
  • ill-disposed,
  • grumpily,
  • Doggish,
  • ungracious,
  • combative,
  • perverse,
  • ill-affected,
  • animal,
  • shrewish,
  • uncivil,
  • abruptly,
  • crabbily,
  • pugnacious,
  • brash,
  • unfeeling,
  • taint,
  • scrappy,
  • crotchety,
  • stern,
  • cragged,
  • vexed,
  • short-tempered,
  • rudely,
  • Haggish,
  • angry,
  • harshly,
  • warlike,
  • dismally,
  • sulkily,
  • peevishly,
  • pouty,
  • Knaggy,
  • quarrelsome,
  • testy,
  • stuffy,
  • cutting,
  • abusive,
  • tetchy,
  • ill-humoured.

Antonyms for Surly:

• adj.

  • gruff, bearish
    kind, gentle, happy, refined, sophisticated, polite, bright, cheerful, nice, pleasant.
  • Other antonyms:
    happy, lighthearted, cheerful, high-spirited, cheery, long-suffering, complaisant, glad, congenial, benign, tender, patient, amicable, vivacious, relaxed, carefree, joyful, indulgent, mild, content, friendly, bland, tolerant, loving, gladsome, sunny, happy-go-lucky, calm, placid, easygoing, perky, serene, sympathetic, benignant, lively, good-humored.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    amicable, benign, bright, calm, carefree, cheerful, cheery, congenial, content, easygoing, friendly, glad, gladsome, good-humored, happy, happy-go-lucky, high-spirited, lighthearted, lively, long-suffering, patient, perky, placid, polite, refined, relaxed, serene, sophisticated, sunny.