All cranky synonyms
crank·y
C c adj cranky
- grouchy — sullenly discontented; sulky; morose; ill-tempered.
- cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- ornery — ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin.
- ugly — very unattractive or unpleasant to look at; offensive to the sense of beauty; displeasing in appearance.
- irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
- grumpy — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- snappish — apt to snap or bite, as a dog.
- tetchy — irritable; touchy.
- bearish — On the stock market, if there is a bearish mood, prices are expected to fall. Compare bullish.
- cussed — obstinate
- ill humor — a disagreeable or surly mood.
- vinegary — of the nature of or resembling vinegar; sour; acid: a vinegary taste.
- choleric — A choleric person gets angry very easily. You can also use choleric to describe a person who is very angry.
- crabby — Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
- 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.
- crotchety — A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- hot-tempered — easily angered; short-tempered.
- mean — to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
- 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.
- perverse — willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
- quick-tempered — easily angered.
- ratty — full of rats.
adjective cranky
- bad-tempered — Someone who is bad-tempered is not very cheerful and gets angry easily.
- touchy — apt to take offense on slight provocation; irritable: He is very touchy when he's sick.
- peevish — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
- eccentric — deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd: eccentric conduct; an eccentric person.
- quirky — having or full of quirks.
- idiosyncratic — pertaining to the nature of idiosyncrasy, or something peculiar to an individual: The best minds are idiosyncratic and unpredictable as they follow the course of scientific discovery.
- bizarre — Something that is bizarre is very odd and strange.
- strange — unusual, extraordinary, or curious; odd; queer: a strange remark to make.
- weird — involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: a weird sound; weird lights.
- original — belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.