cantankerous

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; - Spectator
• having a difficult and contrary disposition; - Dorothy Sayers
  • "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"

Adj

• Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby.

Synonyms

atrabilious, bad-tempered, bilious, bitchy, bloody-minded, brainish, cantankerous, carnaptious, crabbit, crabby, cranky, crotchety, dyspeptic, edgy, fantoddish, fiery, fractious, fretful, grotchy, grouchy, grumpy, hissy, hot-livered, hot-tempered, hotheaded, huffy, humpy, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, ornery, ornery (chiefly US)}, out of sorts, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, quick-tempered, raspy, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snippety, snippish, snippy, snitchy, splenetic, stressy, surly, testy, tetchy, tetty, thin-skinned, thorny, touchy, twitchy, umbrageous, waspish