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# cantankerous

adjective (more cantankerous, most cantankerous)

«cantankerous» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Cantankerous means bad-tempered, quarrelsome and hard to please. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cantankerous/#m1)

### In the lessons

describes a grumpy, nagging person in a tale, such as a cross wife who argues about everything

### Examples

- My grandad is cantankerous before breakfast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cantankerous/#x1)
- The cantankerous old man shouted at the children. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cantankerous/#x2)
- Nobody wanted to help the cantankerous farmer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cantankerous/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cantankerous» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cantankerous/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cantankerous» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cantankerous.html) on Mova free.