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General (29 matching dictionaries)

1. cantankerous: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. cantankerous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
3. cantankerous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. cantankerous: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. cantankerous: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. cantankerous: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Cantankerous, cantankerous: Wordnik [home, info]
8. cantankerous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. cantankerous: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. cantankerous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. cantankerous: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
12. cantankerous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
13. cantankerous: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
14. Cantankerous, cantankerous: Dictionary.com [home, info]
15. cantankerous: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
16. cantankerous: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
17. Cantankerous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
18. cantankerous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
19. cantankerous: Rhymezone [home, info]
20. cantankerous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
21. cantankerous: Free Dictionary [home, info]
22. cantankerous: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
23. cantankerous: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
24. cantankerous: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
25. cantankerous: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
26. cantankerous: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
27. Cantankerous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]

Business (1 matching dictionary)

28. cantankerous: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

29. cantankerous: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

(Note: See cantankerousness for more definitions.)

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (cantankerous) ▸ adjective:  having a difficult and contrary disposition ("A cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady- Dorothy Sayers") ▸ adjective:  stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate ▸ Also see cantankerousness ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to cantankerous ▸ Usage examples for cantankerous ▸ Idioms related to cantankerous (New!) ▸ Popular nouns described by cantankerous ▸ Words that often appear near cantankerous ▸ Rhymes of cantankerous ▸ Invented words related to cantankerous