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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. having a difficult and contrary disposition;
- Example: "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers
[syn: cantankerous, crotchety, ornery]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Crotchety \Crotch"et*y\ (kr?ch"?t-?), a. Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

crotchety adj 1: having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers [syn: cantankerous, crotchety, ornery]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

89 Moby Thesaurus words for "crotchety": abnormal, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, arbitrary, bearish, breakaway, cankered, capricious, clashing, conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, crank, crankish, cranky, cross-grained, deviant, deviative, different, dissident, divergent, dotty, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fey, flaky, freakish, funny, harebrained, hostile, humorsome, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, inimical, irregular, kinky, kooky, maggoty, moody, motiveless, nonconformist, notional, nutty, odd, oddball, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, ornery, peculiar, perverse, petulant, queer, quirky, reactionary, recalcitrant, renitent, repugnant, resistant, revolutionary, screwball, screwy, singular, strange, temperamental, twisted, unconventional, unnatural, unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious, vagrant, vinegarish, vinegary, wacky, wanton, waspish, wayward, whimsical