About The Word Crabbed
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Crabbed
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What's The Definition Of Crabbed?
[adj] perversely irritable
Synonyms | Synonyms for Crabbed: bad-tempered | crabby | cross | fussy | grouchy | grumpy | ill-natured | ill-tempered Related Terms | Find terms related to Crabbed: acerb | acerbate | acerbic | acescent | anile | balled up | bearish | beyond one | bitchy | blunt | brusque | Byzantine | cankered | cantankerous | choleric | churlish | complex | complicated | confounded | confused | convoluted | crab | cramp | cranky | cross | cross-grained | crusty | cussed | daedal | debilitated | decrepit | devious | difficult | disagreeable | doddered | doddering | doddery | dour | dry | elaborate | embrangled | entangled | excitable | feeble | feisty | fossilized | fouled up | fractious | garbled | gerontal | gerontic | gloomy | glum | green | gruff | hard | hard to understand | huffish | huffy | implicated | infirm | intricate | involuted | involved | irascible | irritable | jumbled | knotted | knotty | labyrinthian | labyrinthine | loused up | many-faceted | matted | mazy | mean | meandering | messed up | mixed up | morose | mossbacked | moth-eaten | mucked up | multifarious | mummylike | obfuscated | obscure | obscured | ornery | overtechnical | palsied | papery-skinned | perplexed | perverse | pickled | pungent | ramified | ravaged with age | rickety | roundabout | run to seed | rusty | saturnine | scrambled | screwed up | sec | senile | shaky | shriveled | snappish | snarled | sour | sour as vinegar | soured | sourish | spiteful | spleeny | splenetic | stricken in years | subtle | sulky | surly | tangled | tangly | tart | tartish | testy | timeworn | tottering | tottery | tough | twisted | ugly | unripe | unsweet | unsweetened | vinegarish | vinegary | waspish | weak | withered | wizened See Also | Crabbed In Webster's Dictionary \Crab"bed\ (kr?b"b?d), a. [See {Crab},n.]
1. Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or
moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings,
disposition, or manners.
Crabbed age and youth can not live together. --Shak.
2. Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; --
applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
3. Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed
author. ``Crabbed eloquence.'' --Chaucer.
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and
crabbed, as dull fools suppose. --Milton.
4. Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting. --
{Crab"bed*ly}, adv. -- {Crab"bed*ness}, n.
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