Synonyms for Surly:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • surly.
  •bad-tempered (adjective)
  • badtempered,
  • snarliest,
  • atrabilious,
  • ill-natured,
  • more atrabilious,
  • snarly,
  • bad tempered,
  • most atrabilious,
  • snarlier.
  •brief (adjective)
  • more compendiary,
  • short sweet,
  • limited,
  • to point,
  • more breviloquent,
  • most compendiary,
  • most breviloquent,
  • boiled down.
  •churlish (adjective)
  • more cloddish,
  • more cussed,
  • un-sociable,
  • most unneighborly,
  • most lowbred,
  • un civilized,
  • oafish,
  • un civil,
  • un-cultured,
  • un mannerly,
  • more unneighborly,
  • most cloddish,
  • un-polished,
  • un sociable,
  • un cultured,
  • most cussed,
  • un-civil,
  • more lowbred,
  • un-civilized,
  • dis-courteous,
  • un polished,
  • most clodhopping,
  • un-neighborly,
  • un-mannerly,
  • un neighborly,
  • more clodhopping,
  • dis courteous.
  •crabby (adjective)
  • chuffier,
  • more mumpish,
  • chuffiest,
  • most mumpish.
  •crabby/crabbed (adjective)
  • more nasty tempered,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • more ill humored,
  • splenetic,
  • most splenetic,
  • snappish,
  • more nasty-tempered,
  • most nasty tempered,
  • more ill-humored,
  • more illhumored,
  • nastytempered,
  • most illhumored,
  • most nastytempered,
  • mis anthropic,
  • ill humored,
  • most ill humored,
  • most nasty-tempered,
  • nasty tempered,
  • most ill-humored,
  • most crabbed,
  • more nastytempered,
  • illhumored,
  • more difficult,
  • ill-humored,
  • more splenetic.
  •cross (adjective)
  • out humor,
  • quick tempered,
  • more caviling,
  • more vexed,
  • fractious,
  • more pettish,
  • most vexed,
  • most pettish,
  • most caviling,
  • quicktempered,
  • faultfinding.
  •crotchety (adjective)
  • cross-grained,
  • bearish,
  • Crossgrained,
  • vinegary,
  • waspy,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • obstinate.
  •crusty (adjective)
  • more snarling,
  • short tempered,
  • most snarling,
  • shorttempered.
  •disagreeable (adjective)
  • whiny,
  • whinier,
  • whiniest,
  • unlikable.
  •dour (adjective)
  • forbidding.
  •gloomy (adjective)
  • de pressed,
  • de-pressed,
  • un-happy,
  • in the dumps,
  • in dumps,
  • more dragged,
  • gloomy,
  • more chapfallen,
  • most mopish,
  • more moping,
  • down dumps,
  • down mouth,
  • un happy,
  • most dragged,
  • more mirthless,
  • down the mouth,
  • most mirthless,
  • de-solate,
  • most moping,
  • broodier,
  • most chapfallen,
  • down the dumps,
  • un happiest,
  • un happier,
  • more mopish,
  • de solate,
  • broodiest.
  •grim (adjective)
  • in-exorable,
  • stern,
  • re solute,
  • re-solute,
  • un-relenting,
  • more scowling,
  • most scowling,
  • fore-boding,
  • un yielding,
  • more glowering,
  • in exorable,
  • most glowering,
  • fore boding,
  • grisly,
  • in-tractable,
  • more foreboding,
  • un relenting,
  • most foreboding,
  • un-yielding,
  • in tractable.
  •grouchy (adjective)
  • grumbling,
  • dis-contented,
  • dis contented,
  • most discontented.
  •gruff (adjective)
  • gruff.
  •gruff, bearish (adjective)
  • morose,
  • ungracious,
  • boorish,
  • brusque,
  • perverse,
  • glum,
  • irritable,
  • sulky,
  • uncivil.
  •grumpy (adjective)
  • dis satisfied,
  • more griping,
  • dis-satisfied,
  • most griping.
  •hostile (adjective)
  • most ill-disposed,
  • more illdisposed,
  • most opposite,
  • in hospitable,
  • in-hospitable,
  • more ill disposed,
  • un-favorable,
  • un kindest,
  • un kind,
  • most anti,
  • most unwelcoming,
  • most disapproving,
  • most illdisposed,
  • un-propitious,
  • more oppugnant,
  • un kinder,
  • more anti,
  • un sympathetic,
  • unpropitious,
  • more unwelcoming,
  • illdisposed,
  • dis approving,
  • un-welcoming,
  • un propitious,
  • un welcoming,
  • most oppugnant,
  • un-kinder,
  • un-kind,
  • more ill-disposed,
  • more disapproving,
  • most ill disposed,
  • un-kindest,
  • un favorable,
  • ill disposed,
  • dis-approving.
  •huffy (adjective)
  • more nettled,
  • most nettled,
  • more riled,
  • most piqued,
  • miffed,
  • most exasperated,
  • more huffish,
  • most irked,
  • ex-asperated,
  • most huffish,
  • more exasperated,
  • more irked,
  • huffy,
  • most riled,
  • more piqued,
  • ex asperated.
  •ill (adjective)
  • un healthier,
  • un lucky,
  • in auspicious,
  • ill mannered,
  • more nocent,
  • un healthy,
  • un-fortunate,
  • in-auspicious,
  • un-luckiest,
  • illmannered,
  • un promising,
  • un-healthy,
  • most unpromising,
  • dis-respectful,
  • un-luckier,
  • dis respectful,
  • un wholesome,
  • un luckiest,
  • un fortunate,
  • more unpromising,
  • most nocent,
  • un healthiest,
  • un-wholesome,
  • ill,
  • un-lucky,
  • un luckier,
  • inauspicious,
  • un-healthiest,
  • un-promising.
  •ill-natured (adjective)
  • hot tempered,
  • illnatured,
  • most tempersome,
  • more tempersome,
  • tempersome,
  • ill natured,
  • temperamental.
  •ill-tempered (adjective)
  • crabbed.
  •irascible (adjective)
  • ogrer,
  • thin skinned,
  • ogrest,
  • thinskinned.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • oversensitive,
  • bitter,
  • caustic,
  • spiteful,
  • petulant,
  • acerbic,
  • cranky,
  • tart,
  • bitchy,
  • prickly,
  • acid,
  • Fretting,
  • crabby,
  • bellicose,
  • easily offended,
  • acrimonious,
  • sour,
  • cantankerous,
  • petty.
  •mean (adjective)
  • ornery.
  •morose (adjective)
  • singing blues,
  • most perversive,
  • in a blue funk,
  • more perversive,
  • having blahs.
  •ornery (adjective)
  • hard nosed,
  • hardnosed.
  •peevish (adjective)
  • most out of sorts,
  • most out-of-sorts,
  • more growling,
  • more out-of-sorts,
  • more grousing,
  • more out of sorts,
  • most growling,
  • most grousing,
  • more whining,
  • most whining,
  • fault finding.
  •rude (adjective)
  • more brutish,
  • in-solent,
  • more bad-mannered,
  • un couth,
  • most bad-mannered,
  • uneducated,
  • more badmannered,
  • un educated,
  • un-educated,
  • most badmannered,
  • bad mannered,
  • un refined,
  • un-couth,
  • in solent,
  • un-refined,
  • badmannered,
  • most brutish,
  • more bad mannered,
  • most bad mannered.
  •ruthless (adjective)
  • most hard hearted,
  • more killer,
  • more ironfisted,
  • more hard-hearted,
  • killer,
  • un appeasable,
  • more hard hearted,
  • dog eat dog,
  • re-vengeful,
  • in human,
  • cold blooded,
  • un-forgiving,
  • un forgiving,
  • un merciful,
  • re vengeful,
  • in-human,
  • remorseless,
  • most ironfisted,
  • un-appeasable,
  • un-merciful,
  • most hard-hearted,
  • most killer,
  • hard hearted,
  • unforgiving.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • long-faced,
  • malevolent,
  • beetle-browed,
  • frowning,
  • dissociable,
  • mean,
  • scowling,
  • uncooperative,
  • melancholy,
  • glowering,
  • ungenial,
  • cynical,
  • sourpussed,
  • unsociable,
  • fretful,
  • noncooperative,
  • Moping,
  • moody,
  • contrary,
  • dejected,
  • dark.
  •touchy (adjective)
  • un-safest,
  • hyper sensitive,
  • un safest,
  • more hypersensitive,
  • un predictable,
  • pre carious,
  • un safe,
  • un safer,
  • un-predictable,
  • pre-carious,
  • more perturbable,
  • most perturbable,
  • un-safe,
  • bundle nerves,
  • wired up,
  • hyper-sensitive,
  • un-safer,
  • most hypersensitive.
  •ugly (adjective)
  • fellest.
  •unfeeling (adjective)
  • un-emotional,
  • more iron-hearted,
  • un feeling,
  • un-feeling,
  • ex-acting,
  • Iron-hearted,
  • more deadened,
  • cold hearted,
  • more iron hearted,
  • in sensible,
  • most unamiable,
  • more ironhearted,
  • most iron-hearted,
  • be numbed,
  • be-numbed,
  • un amiable,
  • most anesthetized,
  • more uncordial,
  • un-cordial,
  • more unamiable,
  • most iron hearted,
  • in-sensate,
  • most deadened,
  • ex acting,
  • more feelingless,
  • un-compassionate,
  • un cordial,
  • thick skinned,
  • most uncordial,
  • un emotional,
  • in sensitive,
  • un caring,
  • more anesthetized,
  • in-sensible,
  • thickskinned,
  • in sensate,
  • in-animate,
  • un-caring,
  • iron hearted,
  • in-sensitive,
  • un compassionate,
  • most ironhearted,
  • un-amiable,
  • most sensationless,
  • most feelingless,
  • more sensationless,
  • in animate.
  •unfriendly (adjective)
  • most grudging,
  • not speaking terms,
  • not on speaking terms,
  • most against,
  • more estranged,
  • un charitable,
  • un friendliest,
  • un friendly,
  • un congenial,
  • most estranged,
  • un-friendliest,
  • dis affected,
  • un-friendly,
  • un-charitable,
  • more grudging,
  • un-friendlier,
  • un-congenial,
  • un friendlier,
  • anti social,
  • more against,
  • dis-affected.

• n.

  •
  • impolite,
  • smart,
  • abrasive,
  • discourteous,
  • impudent,
  • ill-mannered,
  • impertinent,
  • insolent,
  • offensive.

• Other synonyms:

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

Antonyms for Surly:

• adj.

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

Homophones for Surly:

• Cearley.