Cantankerous
Cantankerous adjective - Having or showing a habitually bad temper.
Ill-humoured and cantankerous are semantically related in bad-tempered topic. In some cases you can use "Ill-humoured" instead an adjective "Cantankerous".
Ill-humoured
Ill-humoured adjective - Brusque and surly and forbidding.
Cantankerous and ill-humoured are semantically related in irritable topic. Sometimes you can use "Cantankerous" instead an adjective phrase "Ill-humoured".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- gruff and cantankerous
- gruff and ill-humoured
- irritable and cantankerous
- irritable and ill-humoured
- cranky and cantankerous
- cranky and ill-humoured
- ill-tempered and cantankerous
- ill-tempered and ill-humoured
- disagreeable and cantankerous
- disagreeable and ill-humoured
- testy and cantankerous
- testy and ill-humoured
- irascible and cantankerous
- irascible and ill-humoured
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