"cantankerous" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /kænˈtæŋkəɹəs/, /kənˈtæŋkəɹəs/ Audio: en-us-cantankerous.ogg , en-au-cantankerous.ogg Forms: more cantankerous [comparative], most cantankerous [superlative]
Etymology: Perhaps derived from earlier contenkerous, from contentious + rancorous. Head templates: {{en-adj}} cantankerous (comparative more cantankerous, superlative most cantankerous)
  1. Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby. Categories (topical): Emotions, Personality Synonyms: cranky, crotchety, grouchy, grumpy, ornery, surly, truculent Derived forms: cantankerosity, cantankerously, cantankerousness, uncantankerous Translations (ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby): заядлив (zajadliv) (Bulgarian), придирчив (pridirčiv) (Bulgarian), nevrlý [masculine] (Czech), hašteřivý [masculine] (Czech), krakilsk (Danish), kværulantisk (Danish), dwars (Dutch), korzelig (Dutch), kverelema (Esperanto), grumblema (Esperanto), incitiĝema (Esperanto), kolerema (Esperanto), malbonhumora (Esperanto), kärttyisä (Finnish), pahantuulinen (Finnish), irritable (French), bufiñón (Galician), fungón (Galician), roñón (Galician), rosmón (Galician), launisch (German), zänkisch (German), mürrisch (German), übellaunig (German), κακότροπος (kakótropos) (Greek), anglánta (Irish), agóideach (Irish), bisbetico (Italian), scorbutico (Italian), collerico (Italian), stizzoso (Italian), irritabile (Italian), irascibile (Italian), intrattabile (Italian), ācriculus (Latin), pukukino (Maori), āritarita (Maori), nihoniho (Maori), gretten (Norwegian Bokmål), kłótliwy [masculine] (Polish), swarliwy [masculine] (Polish), irritadiço (Portuguese), mal-humorado (Portuguese), ranzinza (Portuguese), supărăcios (Romanian), susceptibil (Romanian), iritabil (Romanian), сварливый (svarlivyj) (Russian), intratable (Spanish), mañoso [Latin-America] (Spanish), enojadizo (Spanish), arisco (Spanish), cascarrabias (Spanish), grälsjuk (Swedish), kverulantisk (Swedish), kvirrig (Swedish), grinig (Swedish), gnällig (Swedish), knarrig (Swedish), aksi (Turkish), geçimsiz (Turkish), huysuz (Turkish), сварливий (svarlyvyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

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          "ref": "1839, “The youth of Julia Howard”, in Fraser's magazine for town and country, volume 20, page 618",
          "text": "\"She is a cantankerous old maid,\" added another, whom I recognised, by his voice, as a man whose attentions I had put a determined check to not six weeks before: \"she is a cantankerous old maid, fretting and snarling over the loss of her beauty.\"",
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          "ref": "1978 December 9, Pat M. Kuras, “A Splice of Lesbian Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 11",
          "text": "Murphy's Law never proved itself more accurate than at the Nov. 18 film benefit for Persephone Press. With problems ranging from a cantankerous projector to blown fuses, the presentations of Jan Oxenberg's films were blurred, disrupted and played with lapses in their soundtracks.",
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          "ref": "1998, Pauline Chazan, The Moral Self, page 80",
          "text": "By contrast, cantankerous and churlish people are contemptuously independent of others’ opinions, not caring enough about others and their views.",
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          "ref": "2007, Linda Francis Lee, The Devil in the Junior League, page 44",
          "text": "Nina was thrilled, muttering her cantankerous joy that I was getting out of the house.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest, page 169",
          "text": "Unfortunately, as Great-Aunt Bert could be a bit cantankerous, they were having to be creative.",
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
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          "code": "eo",
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          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
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          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
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          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
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          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
          "word": "rosmón"
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          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
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          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
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          "roman": "kakótropos",
          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
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          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
          "word": "agóideach"
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          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
          "word": "bisbetico"
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        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
          "word": "scorbutico"
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        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
          "word": "collerico"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
          "word": "irritabile"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
          "word": "irascibile"
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
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          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
          "word": "ācriculus"
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          "code": "mi",
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          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
          "word": "pukukino"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
          "word": "āritarita"
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        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
          "word": "nihoniho"
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          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
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          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
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          "code": "pl",
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          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
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          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
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          "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
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        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
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        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Latin translations",
        "Terms with Maori translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
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        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "en:Emotions",
        "en:Personality"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1839, “The youth of Julia Howard”, in Fraser's magazine for town and country, volume 20, page 618",
          "text": "\"She is a cantankerous old maid,\" added another, whom I recognised, by his voice, as a man whose attentions I had put a determined check to not six weeks before: \"she is a cantankerous old maid, fretting and snarling over the loss of her beauty.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978 December 9, Pat M. Kuras, “A Splice of Lesbian Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 11",
          "text": "Murphy's Law never proved itself more accurate than at the Nov. 18 film benefit for Persephone Press. With problems ranging from a cantankerous projector to blown fuses, the presentations of Jan Oxenberg's films were blurred, disrupted and played with lapses in their soundtracks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Pauline Chazan, The Moral Self, page 80",
          "text": "By contrast, cantankerous and churlish people are contemptuously independent of others’ opinions, not caring enough about others and their views.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Linda Francis Lee, The Devil in the Junior League, page 44",
          "text": "Nina was thrilled, muttering her cantankerous joy that I was getting out of the house.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest, page 169",
          "text": "Unfortunately, as Great-Aunt Bert could be a bit cantankerous, they were having to be creative.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "quarrelsome",
          "quarrelsome"
        ],
        [
          "ill-tempered",
          "ill-tempered"
        ],
        [
          "cranky",
          "cranky"
        ],
        [
          "crabby",
          "crabby"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kænˈtæŋkəɹəs/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kənˈtæŋkəɹəs/"
    },
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "cranky"
    },
    {
      "word": "crotchety"
    },
    {
      "word": "grouchy"
    },
    {
      "word": "grumpy"
    },
    {
      "word": "ornery"
    },
    {
      "word": "surly"
    },
    {
      "word": "truculent"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zajadliv",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "заядлив"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pridirčiv",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "придирчив"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nevrlý"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hašteřivý"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "krakilsk"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "kværulantisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "dwars"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "korzelig"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "kverelema"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "grumblema"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "incitiĝema"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "kolerema"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "malbonhumora"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "kärttyisä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "pahantuulinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "irritable"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "bufiñón"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "fungón"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "roñón"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "rosmón"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "launisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "zänkisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "mürrisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "übellaunig"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kakótropos",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "κακότροπος"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "anglánta"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "agóideach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "bisbetico"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "scorbutico"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "collerico"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "stizzoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "irritabile"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "irascibile"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "intrattabile"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "ācriculus"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "pukukino"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "āritarita"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "nihoniho"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "gretten"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kłótliwy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "swarliwy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "irritadiço"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "mal-humorado"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "ranzinza"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "supărăcios"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "susceptibil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "iritabil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svarlivyj",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "сварливый"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "intratable"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "tags": [
        "Latin-America"
      ],
      "word": "mañoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "enojadizo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "arisco"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "cascarrabias"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "grälsjuk"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "kverulantisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "kvirrig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "grinig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "gnällig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "knarrig"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "aksi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "geçimsiz"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "word": "huysuz"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "svarlyvyj",
      "sense": "ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сварливий"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cantankerous"
}

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