crabbedness
71testiness — n irritability, petulance, snappishness, irascibility, touchiness, tetchiness, prickliness; peevishness, waspishness, raspiness, fretfulness, edginess, nervousness; excitability, fieriness, inflammability; grouchiness, crankiness, crabbedness,… …
72touchiness — adj 1. tetchiness, testiness, irritability, edginess, snappishness, nervousness; irascibility, cholericness, petulance, Rare. petulancy; grouchiness, grumpiness, crankiness, crabbiness, crotchetiness, crossness, crabbedness; churlishness,… …
73virulence — n 1. poisonousness, venomousness, ven omness, toxicity, deadliness, virulency; lethality, fatalness; noxiousness, harmfulness, hurtfulness, injuriousness, detrimentalness, detrimentality, deleteriousness, unwholesomeness, unhealthiness;… …
74crabbed — /kræbd/ (say krabd) adjective 1. perplexing; intricate: a crabbed author; crabbed writings. 2. difficult to decipher, as cramped handwriting. 3. Obsolete perverse; contrary and irritable. {Middle English, from crab1 + ed3} –crabbedly /ˈkræbədli/… …
75crabbed — [krab′id] adj. [< CRAB1, infl. by CRAB2] 1. peevish; morose; cross 2. hard to understand because intricate or complicated 3. hard to read or make out because cramped or irregular [crabbed handwriting] crabbedly …
76crabbed — adj. 1 irritable or morose. 2 (of handwriting) ill formed and hard to decipher. 3 perverse or cross grained. 4 difficult to understand. Derivatives: crabbedly adv. crabbedness n. Etymology: ME f. CRAB(1), assoc. with CRAB(2) …
77ill nature — noun a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition • Ant: ↑good nature • Hypernyms: ↑disposition, ↑temperament • Hyponyms: ↑crabbiness, ↑crabbedness, ↑ …
78ill-tempered — adjective annoyed and irritable • Syn: ↑crabbed, ↑crabby, ↑cross, ↑fussy, ↑grouchy, ↑grumpy, ↑bad tempered • Similar to: ↑ill natured …
