crabbed

crabbed
    adj 1: annoyed and irritable [syn: {crabbed}, {crabby}, {cross},
           {fussy}, {grouchy}, {grumpy}, {bad-tempered}, {ill-
           tempered}]
    

Crabbed \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.
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            Crabbed age and youth can not live together. --Shak.
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   2. Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; --
      applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
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   3. Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed
      author. "Crabbed eloquence." --Chaucer.
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            How charming is divine philosophy!
            Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose.
                                                  --Milton.
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   4. Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting. --
      {Crab"bed*ly}, adv. -- {Crab"bed*ness}, n.
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142 Moby Thesaurus words for "crabbed":
      Byzantine, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, anile, balled up,
      bearish, beyond one, bitchy, blunt, brusque, 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