crabbed
21crabbed — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, anile, balled up, bearish, beyond one, bitchy, blunt, brusque, cankered, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, crab,… …
22crabbed — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. crabby, ill tempered, irascible, surly, growly, cross, peevish; cramped, illegible, squeezed. See irascibility, unintelligibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Sour tempered] Syn. grouchy, peevish,… …
23crabbed — crab·bed || kræbɪd adj. irritable, grouchy; hard to understand; illegible kræb n. any of a number of crustaceans having five pairs of walking legs; grouch, bad tempered person v. complain; criticize; fish for crabs …
24crabbed — adjective 1》 (of writing) hard to read or understand. 2》 crabby. Derivatives crabbedly adverb crabbedness noun Origin ME: from crab1, because of the crab s sideways gait and habit of snapping …
25crabbed — a. 1. Sour, tart, rough, acrid. 2. Morose, surly, testy, touchy, cross, growling, snarling, snappish, cantankerous, waspish, petulant, peevish, churlish, harsh, acrimonious, caustic, captious, censorious, splenetic, out of sorts, ill tempered. 3 …
26crabbed — adj 1. grouchy, ill natured, ill humored, cross, peevish, splenetic, cantankerous, crotchety, crusty; irritable, touchy, testy, out of sorts; bitter, sour, caustic, churlish, snappish, waspish, surly, acrimonious; petulant, sulky, sullen, morose …
27crabbed — crab·bed …
28crabbed — crab•bed [[t]ˈkræb ɪd[/t]] adj. 1) difficult to read, as handwriting 2) hard to understand; intricate and obscure 3) ill tempered; surly • Etymology: 1250–1300; ME; see crab I, ed crab′bed•ly, adv. crab′bed•ness, n …
29crabbed — See bitter …
30crabbed — adj. 1 irritable or morose. 2 (of handwriting) ill formed and hard to decipher. 3 perverse or cross grained. 4 difficult to understand. Derivatives: crabbedly adv. crabbedness n. Etymology: ME f. CRAB(1), assoc. with CRAB(2) …
