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Crabbedness

Definition: Crabbedness

Crabbedness

Noun

1. A disposition to be ill tempered.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Crabbedness

Synonyms: crabbiness (n), crossness (n). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: Crabbedness

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Sullenness	Moodiness; Adjective: perversity; obstinacy; torvity, spinosity; crabbedness; Adjective:
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Crabbedness

English words defined with "crabbedness": Curstness ♦ Tetricity. (references)

Etymologies containing "crabbedness": Curstness. (references)

Modern Translation: Crabbedness

Language		Translations for "crabbedness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		艰涩 (Crabbedly). (various references)

German		Verdrießlichkeit (crossness, fretfulness, glumness, grumpiness, irksomeness, moroseness, peevishness, sourness, sullenness, surliness). (various references)

Greek		δυστροπία (biliousness, crustiness, grouchiness, moroseness, orneriness, peevishness, perversity, pettishness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, surliness, testiness, waspishness, waywardness). (various references)

Italian		uggia (boredom, ennui, fretfulness, grumpiness, moroseness, nuisance). (various references)

Manx		granganid (captiousness, churlishness, crossness, ill temper, ill-naturedness, peevishness). (various references)

Pig Latin		abbednesscray

Romanian		asperitate (asperity, harshness, roughness, ruggedness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations: Crabbedness

Derivations
	Words beginning with "crabbedness": crabbednesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Crabbedness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-d-e-e-n-r-s-s"
	-2 letters: ascenders, reascends.
	-3 letters: absences, ascender, bareness, caressed, casernes, dearness, debasers, drabness, reascend.
	-4 letters: absence, ancress, ascends, badness, banders, benders, brassed, careens, caserne, caserns, censers, crabbed, creased, creases, dabbers, dancers, debaser, debases, decanes, decares, decerns, encased, encases, endears, nabbers, recaned, recanes, redness, resedas, resends, sabered, sanders, scabbed, screeds, screens, seabeds, seances, secerns, senders, senecas.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-b-c-d-e-e-n-r-s-s"
	+2 letters: crabbednesses.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern

5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography

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