Cranky \Crank"y\ (-?), a.
1. Full of spirit; crank.
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2. Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions;
crotchety. [Colloq.]
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3. Unsteady; easy to upset; crank.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cranky
adj 1: (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
[syn: crank, tender, tippy]
2: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious
young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
[syn: fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish,
pettish, petulant, testy, tetchy, techy]
[also: crankiest, crankier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
202 Moby Thesaurus words for "cranky":
abnormal, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, arbitrary,
at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war,
bearish, beefing, bellyaching, bitching, bitchy, breakaway,
cankered, cantankerous, capricious, choleric, churlish, clashing,
complaining, complaintful, conflicting, contentious, contradicting,
contradictory, contrary, counteractant, counteracting,
counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, crabbed, crabbing,
crabby, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, crank, crankish, crazed,
crazy, croaking, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cuckoo,
cussed, daffy, daft, deviant, deviative, different, differing,
difficult, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disappointed,
discontented, discordant, discrepant, disgruntled, disharmonious,
displeased, disproportionate, dissatisfied, dissident, dissonant,
divergent, dotty, eccentric, envious, erratic, exceptional,
excitable, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, faultfinding, feisty,
fey, flaky, fractious, freakish, froward, funny, grating, griping,
grouchy, grousing, growling, gruff, grumbling, harebrained,
hostile, hot-tempered, huffish, huffy, humorsome, idiocratic,
idiosyncratic, ill-humored, immiscible, inaccordant, incompatible,
inharmonious, inimical, irascible, irregular, irritable, jangling,
jarring, kinky, kooky, maggoty, malcontent, malcontented, mean,
moody, motiveless, murmuring, muttering, negative, nonconformist,
notional, nutty, odd, oddball, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant,
ornery, out of accord, out of humor, out of sorts, out of whack,
peculiar, peevish, perverse, petulant, queer, querulant, querulous,
quick-tempered, quirky, ratty, reactionary, rebellious,
recalcitrant, renitent, repugnant, resentful, resistant, restive,
restless, revolutionary, screwball, screwy, short-tempered,
singular, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, strange, sulky,
surly, temperamental, testy, tetchy, touchy, twisted, ugly,
unaccepting, unaccommodating, uncongenial, unconventional, uneasy,
unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unharmonious, unnatural,
unreasonable, unrestrained, unsatisfied, vagarious, vagrant,
variant, vinegarish, vinegary, wacky, wanton, waspish, wayward,
weird, whimsical, whiny
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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