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Antonyms for cantankerous
kænˈtæŋ kər əscan·tan·ker·ous

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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. bloody-minded, cantankerousadjective

    stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate

    "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator

    Antonyms:
    docile, good-natured

    Synonyms:
    bloodthirsty, ornery, crotchety, sanguinary, bloody-minded

  2. cantankerous, crotchety, orneryadjective

    having a difficult and contrary disposition

    "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

    Antonyms:
    good-natured, docile

    Synonyms:
    crotchety, ornery, bloody-minded

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 1 vote

  1. cantankerousadjective

    Synonyms:
    perverse, contumacious, contentious, headstrong, contrary

How to use cantankerous in a sentence?

  1. Marcus Aurelius:

    If you don’t want to be cantankerous, don’t feed your temper, or multiply incidents of anger. Suppress the first impulse to be angry, then begin to count the days on which you don’t get mad.

  2. Chuang-tzu, On Leveling All Things:

    Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

  3. Chuang-tzu:

    Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

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