All ornery synonyms

adjective ornery

• irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
• cranky — If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange.
• crabby — Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
• grouchy — sullenly discontented; sulky; morose; ill-tempered.
• cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
• bad-tempered — Someone who is bad-tempered is not very cheerful and gets angry easily.
• awkward — An awkward situation is embarrassing and difficult to deal with.
• uncooperative — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
• mean — to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
• grumpy — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
• hard-nosed — hardheaded or tough; unsentimentally practical: a hard-nosed labor leader.
• ill-tempered — bad or irritable disposition.
• nasty — physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
• obstinate — firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty.
• vicious — addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
• contemptible — If you feel that someone or something is contemptible, you feel strong dislike and disrespect for them.
• crusty — Crusty bread has a hard, crisp outside.
• difficult — not easily or readily done; requiring much labor, skill, or planning to be performed successfully; hard: a difficult job.
• disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
• ignoble — of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base: his ignoble purposes.
• quarrelsome — inclined to quarrel; argumentative; contentious.
• rotten — decomposing or decaying; putrid; tainted, foul, or bad-smelling.
• sour — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
• surly — churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
• testy — irritably impatient; touchy.
• unfriendly — not amicable; not friendly or kindly in disposition; unsympathetic; aloof: an unfriendly coldness of manner.