All crabbed synonyms
crab·bed
C c adj crabbed
- cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
- bad-tempered — Someone who is bad-tempered is not very cheerful and gets angry easily.
- cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- crabby — Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
- cranky — If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange.
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- grouchy — sullenly discontented; sulky; morose; ill-tempered.
- grumpy — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
- peevish — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
- querulous — full of complaints; complaining.
- snappish — apt to snap or bite, as a dog.
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- surly — churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
- testy — irritably impatient; touchy.
adjective crabbed
- out of sorts — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- touchy — apt to take offense on slight provocation; irritable: He is very touchy when he's sick.
- short-tempered — having a quick, hasty temper; irascible.
- sullen — showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.
- tetchy — irritable; touchy.
- ill-tempered — bad or irritable disposition.