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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

ill-tempered, cranky;

e.g. She's a crotchety old woman, but becomes gentle when the children visit.

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Similar Words

Brooding

Choleric

Crabby

Cranky

Cross

Cross-grained

Fiery

Fretful

Grouchy

Grumpy

Hypersensitive

Irascible

Irritable

Outrageous

Oversensitive

Peevish

Perverse

Petulant

Prickly

Quick-tempered

Raspy

Ratty

Short-tempered

Snappish

Snappy

Snarky

Snippety

Snippy

Stroppy

Stuffy

Supersensitive

Tempered

Testy

Wasp

Waspish

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Opposite Words

Affable

Agreeable

Amiable

Carefree

Companionable

Cordial

Easygoing

Extroverted

Friendly

Good-natured

Good-tempered

Gregarious

Happy-go-lucky

Long-suffering

Obliging

Outgoing

Patient

Relaxed

Sociable

Stoic

Sweet

Tolerant

Uncomplaining

Understanding

Well-disposed

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Related Words

Acid

Argumentative

Bearish

Bellicose

Belligerent

Bilious

Bizarre

Bizarro

Bloody-minded

Cantankerous

Combative

Contentious

Crabby

Cranky

Crazy

Cross-grained

Disagreeable

Disputatious

Eccentric

Erratic

Far-out

Fractious

Fretful

Funky

Funny

Fussy

Glum

Grouchy

Grumpy

Hot-blooded

Huffy

Ill-humored

Ill-natured

Ill-tempered

Kinky

Kooky

Moody

Odd

Off-color

Off-kilter

Off-the-wall

Offbeat

Ornery

Out-of-the-way

Outlandish

Passionate

Peculiar

Pouty

Pugnacious

Quaint

Quarrelsome

Queer

Querulous

Quirky

Remarkable

Rum

Screwy

Sensitive

Short

Spaced-out

Splenetic

Strange

Sulky

Sullen

Surly

Temperamental

Tempered

Tetchy

The

Thin-skinned

Ticklish

Touchy

Truculent

Wacky

Way-out

Weird

Weirdo

Whacky

Wild

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