Usually means: Irritable, difficult to deal with.
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  1. cantankerous: Merriam-Webster
  2. cantankerous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cantankerous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cantankerous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cantankerous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cantankerous, cantankerous: Wordnik
  7. cantankerous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cantankerous: Wiktionary
  9. cantankerous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cantankerous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cantankerous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cantankerous, cantankerous: Dictionary.com
  13. cantankerous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cantankerous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. cantankerous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. cantankerous: Rhymezone
  17. cantankerous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cantankerous: FreeDictionary.org
  19. cantankerous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. cantankerous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. cantankerous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  22. Cantankerous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  23. cantankerous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. cantankerous: Legal dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cantankerous: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cantankerous: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cantankerous)

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

Similar:
crotchety, ornery, ill-natured, bloody-minded, stubborn, crabbed, crankish, cankered, atrabilious, crabby, more...

Opposite:
amiable, amicable, friendly, good-natured, good-tempered, good-humored

Types:
grumpy, irritable, cranky, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, grouchy, snappish, more...

Phrases:
opposite of cantankerous, cantankerous person, more...

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Similar:
crotchety, ornery, ill-natured, bloody-minded, stubborn, crabbed, crankish, cankered, atrabilious, crabby, more...

Opposite:
amiable, amicable, friendly, good-natured, good-tempered, good-humored

Types:
grumpy, irritable, cranky, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, grouchy, snappish, more...

Phrases:
opposite of cantankerous, cantankerous person, more...

Colors:
    olive,     mustard,     chartreuse,     taupe,     maroon, more...



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