cranky

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
cranky
    adj 1: (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
           [syn: {crank}, {cranky}, {tender}, {tippy}]
    2: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young
       man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [syn:
       {cranky}, {fractious}, {irritable}, {nettlesome}, {peevish},
       {peckish}, {pettish}, {petulant}, {scratchy}, {testy},
       {tetchy}, {techy}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cranky \Crank"y\ (-?), a.
   1. Full of spirit; crank.
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   2. Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions;
      crotchety. [Colloq.]
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   3. Unsteady; easy to upset; crank.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
202 Moby Thesaurus words for "cranky":
      abnormal, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, arbitrary,
      at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war,
      bearish, beefing, bellyaching, bitching, bitchy, breakaway,
      cankered, cantankerous, capricious, choleric, churlish, clashing,
      complaining, complaintful, conflicting, contentious, contradicting,
      contradictory, contrary, counteractant, counteracting,
      counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, crabbed, crabbing,
      crabby, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, crank, crankish, crazed,
      crazy, croaking, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cuckoo,
      cussed, daffy, daft, deviant, deviative, different, differing,
      difficult, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disappointed,
      discontented, discordant, discrepant, disgruntled, disharmonious,
      displeased, disproportionate, dissatisfied, dissident, dissonant,
      divergent, dotty, eccentric, envious, erratic, exceptional,
      excitable, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, faultfinding, feisty,
      fey, flaky, fractious, freakish, froward, funny, grating, griping,
      grouchy, grousing, growling, gruff, grumbling, harebrained,
      hostile, hot-tempered, huffish, huffy, humorsome, idiocratic,
      idiosyncratic, ill-humored, immiscible, inaccordant, incompatible,
      inharmonious, inimical, irascible, irregular, irritable, jangling,
      jarring, kinky, kooky, maggoty, malcontent, malcontented, mean,
      moody, motiveless, murmuring, muttering, negative, nonconformist,
      notional, nutty, odd, oddball, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant,
      ornery, out of accord, out of humor, out of sorts, out of whack,
      peculiar, peevish, perverse, petulant, queer, querulant, querulous,
      quick-tempered, quirky, ratty, reactionary, rebellious,
      recalcitrant, renitent, repugnant, resentful, resistant, restive,
      restless, revolutionary, screwball, screwy, short-tempered,
      singular, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, strange, sulky,
      surly, temperamental, testy, tetchy, touchy, twisted, ugly,
      unaccepting, unaccommodating, uncongenial, unconventional, uneasy,
      unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unharmonious, unnatural,
      unreasonable, unrestrained, unsatisfied, vagarious, vagrant,
      variant, vinegarish, vinegary, wacky, wanton, waspish, wayward,
      weird, whimsical, whiny

    

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