CRANKIER Synonyms

• easily irritated or annoyed

• stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate

• having a difficult and contrary disposition

• 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

• having a difficult and contrary disposition

• annoyed and irritable

• annoyed and irritable

• United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)

• United States evangelist (1837-1899)

• showing a brooding ill humor

• subject to sharply varying moods

• having a difficult and contrary disposition

• inclined to shake as from weakness or defect

• vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze

• not secure; beset with difficulties

• a bad-tempered person

• a whimsically eccentric person

• an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

• a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle

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

• travel along a zigzag path

• start by cranking

• rotate with a crank

• fasten with a crank

• bend into the shape of a crank

• stubbornly resistant to authority or control

• easily irritated or annoyed

• unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome

• causing irritation or annoyance

• easily irritated or annoyed

• somewhat hungry

• easily irritated or annoyed

• easily irritated or annoyed

• easily irritated or annoyed

• easily irritated or annoyed

• causing abrasion

• easily irritated or annoyed

• lacking consistency

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• easily irritated or annoyed