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cantankerous

cantankerous is a 12-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

12 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 22 · 3 senses

Definitions

  1. 1adjective

    Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious.

  2. 2adjective

    having a difficult and contrary disposition- Dorothy Sayers

    "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"

    Synonyms

    crotchetyornery
  3. 3adjective

    stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate- Spectator

    "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"

Synonyms

crotchetyornery

Common word forms

cantankerously

Words from these letters

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