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cranky
Synonyms and Antonyms of cranky
- that old typewriter is handy sometimes, but rather cranky these days
- the baby was cranky after not being fed for hours
bearish, bilious, cantankerous, cross-grained, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, dyspeptic, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, off-color (or off-colored), ornery, querulous, snarly, surly
argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, combative, contentious, disputatious, fractious, fretful, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent
huffy, pouty, sensitive, short, sulky, sullen, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchy
affable, companionable, cordial, extroverted (also extraverted), friendly, genial, gregarious, outgoing, sociable
agreeable, amiable, good-natured, good-tempered, sweet, well-disposed
carefree, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, relaxed
forbearing, long-suffering, obliging, patient, stoic (or stoical), tolerant, uncomplaining, understanding
- if cranky children don't appreciate what they already have, then they shouldn't get a thing more
antsy, fidgety, restive, restless, squirmy, twitchy, uneasy, wiggly, wriggly
discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied
cantankerous, choleric, cross, crotchety, irascible, irritable, ornery, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snippy, testy, waspish
forbearing, long-suffering, patient, stoic (or stoical), tolerant, uncomplaining
- that's just another of his cranky theories about the CIA
bizarre, bizarro, crazy, curious, eccentric, erratic, far-out, funky, funny, kinky, kooky (also kookie), odd, off-kilter, off-the-wall, offbeat, out-of-the-way, outlandish, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queerish, quirky, remarkable, rum [chiefly British], screwy, spaced-out, strange, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weird, weirdo, wild
aberrant, abnormal, addlepated, flaky
extraordinary, fantastic (also fantastical), freak, freakish, freaky, phantasmagoric (or phantasmagorical), phenomenal
atypical, rare, singular, uncommon, uncustomary, unique, unusual, unwonted
conspicuous, notable, noticeable, outstanding, prominent, salient, striking
atrocious, outrageous, shocking
crotchety, idiosyncratic, nonconformist, nonmainstream, out-there, unconventional, unorthodox
baffling, bewildering, confounding, mystifying, perplexing, puzzling
- the man would inflict on innocent bystanders his cranky ruminations on world events
balmy, barmy [chiefly British], bats, batty, bedlam, bonkers, brainsick, bughouse [slang], certifiable, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, crackpot, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, deranged, fruity [slang], gaga, haywire, insane, kooky (also kookie), loco [slang], loony (also looney), loony tunes (or looney tunes), lunatic, mad, maniacal (also maniac), mental, meshuga (or meshugge), moonstruck, non compos mentis, nuts, nutty, psycho, psychotic, scatty [chiefly British], screwy, unbalanced, unhinged, unsound, wacko (also whacko), wacky (also whacky), wud [chiefly Scottish]
dotty, fey, loopy, off, potty [chiefly British], teched (or tetched), touched
aberrant, delirious, delusional, delusionary, disordered, disturbed, neurotic, obsessive-compulsive, paranoiac (also paranoic), paranoid (also paranoidal), schizoid, schizophrenic, sociopathic
eccentric, odd, oddball, pixilated (also pixillated), queer, strange
amok (or amuck), ape, ballistic, bananas, berserk, nuclear
distracted, distraught, frantic, frenzied, haywire, hysterical (also hysteric), raving, wigged-out
around the bend, off one's gourd, off one's head, off one's rocker, out of one's head (or mind), out to lunch [slang]
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