CANTANKEROUS Synonyms

• (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

• easily irritated or annoyed

• annoyed and irritable

• inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace

• given to or characterized by argument

• annoyed and irritable

• a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry

• a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece

• a marking that consists of lines that cross each other

• any affliction that causes great suffering

• (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species

• (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids

• extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis

• annoyed and irritable

• travel across or pass over

• meet at a point

• hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

• fold so as to resemble a cross

• to cover or extend over an area or time period

• meet and pass

• trace a line through or across

• breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties

• brusque and surly and forbidding

• stubbornly resistant to authority or control

• easily irritated or annoyed

• unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome

• easily irritated or annoyed

• abnormally sensitive to a stimulus

• capable of responding to stimuli

• very irritable

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• easily irritated or annoyed

• having a difficult and contrary disposition

• annoyed and irritable

• defiantly aggressive