cranky

cranky
Synonyms and related words:
abnormal, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, arbitrary, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, bearish, beefing, bellyaching, bitching, bitchy, breakaway, cankered, cantankerous, capricious, choleric, churlish, clashing, complaining, complaintful, conflicting, contentious, contradicting, contradictory, contrary, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, crabbed, crabbing, crabby, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, crank, crankish, crazed, crazy, croaking, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cuckoo, cussed, daffy, daft, deviant, deviative, different, differing, difficult, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disappointed, discontented, discordant, discrepant, disgruntled, disharmonious, displeased, disproportionate, dissatisfied, dissident, dissonant, divergent, dotty, eccentric, envious, erratic, exceptional, excitable, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, faultfinding, feisty, fey, flaky, fractious, freakish, froward, funny, grating, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, gruff, grumbling, harebrained, hostile, hot-tempered, huffish, huffy, humorsome, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, ill-humored, immiscible, inaccordant, incompatible, inharmonious, inimical, irascible, irregular, irritable, jangling, jarring, kinky, kooky, maggoty, malcontent, malcontented, mean, moody, motiveless, murmuring, muttering, negative, nonconformist, notional, nutty, odd, oddball, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, ornery, out of accord, out of humor, out of sorts, out of whack, peculiar, peevish, perverse, petulant, queer, querulant, querulous, quick-tempered, quirky, ratty, reactionary, rebellious, recalcitrant, renitent, repugnant, resentful, resistant, restive, restless, revolutionary, screwball, screwy, short-tempered, singular, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, strange, sulky, surly, temperamental, testy, tetchy, touchy, twisted, ugly, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uncongenial, unconventional, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unharmonious, unnatural, unreasonable, unrestrained, unsatisfied, vagarious, vagrant, variant, vinegarish, vinegary, wacky, wanton, waspish, wayward, weird, whimsical, whiny

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  • Cranky — may refer to: Irritability Cranky, a form of moving panorama performance operated by a crank Cranky Kong, a character from the Donkey Kong video game series Cranky the Crane, a character from the children s television series Thomas the Tank… …   Wikipedia

  • Cranky — Crank y ( ?), a. 1. Full of spirit; crank. [1913 Webster] 2. Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions; crotchety. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] 3. Unsteady; easy to upset; crank. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • cranky — index fractious, perverse, petulant Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • cranky — cross tempered, irritable, 1821, from CRANK (Cf. crank) (q.v.) + Y (Cf. y) (2) …   Etymology dictionary

  • cranky — cross, choleric, splenetic, testy, *irascible, touchy Analogous words: *irritable, fractious, peevish, petulant, snappish: *contrary, perverse, froward: *impatient, nervous, jittery Contrasted words: *calm, tranquil, serene, placid: good nat …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • cranky — [adj] in bad mood bad humored, bearish, cantankerous, choleric, crabby, cross, crotchety, cussed, disagreeable, got up on wrong side of bed*, grouchy, grumpy, hot tempered, illhumored, irascible, irritable, like a bear*, mean, ornery*, out of… …   New thesaurus

  • cranky — ► ADJECTIVE (crankier, crankiest) informal 1) eccentric, odd. 2) chiefly N. Amer. bad tempered; irritable. 3) (of a machine) working erratically. DERIVATIVES crankily adverb crankiness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • cranky — [kraŋ′kē] adj. crankier, crankiest 1. in poor condition; apt to operate poorly 2. irritable; cross 3. odd; eccentric 4. Rare full of turns; crooked 5. Naut. liable to lurch or capsize; unsteady SYN. IRRITAB …   English World dictionary

  • cranky — UK [ˈkræŋkɪ] / US adjective Word forms cranky : adjective cranky comparative crankier superlative crankiest informal 1) strange or unusual It was just another of his cranky theories. 2) likely to stop working at any time a cranky old lawnmower 3) …   English dictionary

  • cranky — crank|y [ kræŋki ] adjective INFORMAL 1. ) someone who is cranky gets annoyed easily: IRRITABLE: Traveling can make you cranky, tired, and tense. a ) if a baby or small child is cranky, he or she cries a lot and will not sleep or be calm 2. )… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • cranky — [[t]kræ̱ŋki[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange. [INFORMAL] Vegetarianism has shed its cranky image... The Front has often been dismissed… …   English dictionary

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