cantankerous
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders
Related & opposite
- Great Britain domain region
- obstinate similar to
Sense 2 adjective
having a difficult and contrary disposition
a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady
Related & opposite
- crankiness derivation
- queerness derivation
- cussedness derivation
- ill-natured similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | domain region | Related & opposite | Great Britain |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | obstinate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | crankiness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | queerness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | cussedness |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | ill-natured |