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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate;
- Example: "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator
[syn: bloody-minded, cantankerous]

2. 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:

Cantankerous \Can*tan"ker*ous\, a.
   Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. [Colloq.] --
   Can*tan"ker*ous*ly, adv. -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]

         The cantankerous old maiden aunt.        --Thackeray.
   [1913 Webster] Cantar


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cantankerous
    adj 1: stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate;
           "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about
           demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator [syn:
           bloody-minded, cantankerous]
    2: having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous
       and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers [syn:
       cantankerous, crotchety, ornery]