cantankerous Definition
can·tan·ker·ous (kan taŋ′kər əs)
adjective
bad-tempered; quarrelsome
Etymology: prob. < ME contakour, troublemaker (< Anglo-Fr < contec, discord) + -ous
cantankerous Related Forms
can·tan′·ker·ously adverb
can·tan′·ker·ous·ness noun
cantankerous Synonyms
cantankerous Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- man: Complicating matters is the cantankerous mountain man Thunder Jack, who would love to have Demon leading his team.
- father: Harold wants to move up in the world and leave home, but his plans constantly thwarted by his cunning old and cantankerous father.
- personality: God should be ignored as a cantankerous supernatural personality stirring up the affairs of humanity with His index finger.
- woman: The doctor told the young man to go out and find the ugliest, most cantankerous woman he could find and marry her.
- nature: Then, he had been in awe of the wizard's probable cantankerous nature and fearsome powers.
- group: However being an inherently individualist, cantankerous group as a whole why should we expect them to agree on anything?
Modifying Another Word
- particularly: Despite what you say, your problems are much more likely to stem from a particularly cantankerous tape recorder than inferior cassettes.
- often: When a wrinkled skyscraper is flabby, voip phone blithe computer support competes with the often cantankerous abstraction.
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