SkyfireDict

cantankerous   (TTS Sound)

The adj cantankerous has 2 senses

• bloody-minded, cantankerous -- (stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator)


• cantankerous, crotchety, ornery -- (having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers)