Crossness

Definition: Crossness

Crossness

Noun

1. An irritable petulant feeling.

2. A disposition to be ill tempered.

Date "crossness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Synonyms: Crossness

Synonyms: choler (n), crabbedness (n), crabbiness (n), fretfulness (n), fussiness (n), irritability (n), peevishness (n), petulance (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Irascibility	Noun: irascibility, irascibleness, temper; crossness; Adjective: susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity; pugnacity; (contentiousness).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Crossness

English words defined with "crossness": ill temper. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Chuse your own degree of crossness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Crossness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Crossness" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

Language		Translations for "crossness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		намусеност. (various references)

Finnish		kiukku (anger), kärtyisyys (petulance), äreys (grumpiness, peevishness), äkeys (vehemence). (various references)

German		Verdrießlichkeit (crabbedness, fretfulness, glumness, grumpiness, irksomeness, moroseness, peevishness, sourness, sullenness, surliness), ärgerlichkeit (annoyance, nuisance, peskiness). (various references)

Greek		σκυθρωπότησ (glumness, sulks, sullenness, surliness), σκυθρωπότητα (glumness, moroseness, sullenness, surliness), δυσθυμία (blues, moroseness). (various references)

Hungarian		rosszkedv (blues, doldrums, dump, fit of blues, grouch, grumpiness, grundyism, hip, hump, ill humor, ill humour, low spirits, miff, moodiness, mumps, spunk). (various references)

Manx		sneih (offence, umbrage, vexation), snee (offence, offend, vexation), granganid (captiousness, churlishness, crabbedness, ill temper, ill-naturedness, peevishness). (various references)

Pig Latin		ossnesscray

Portuguese		mau humor (bad mood, bile, choler, fretfulness, gripe, grouch, grumble, huff, hump, miff, petulance), indisposição (colorwash, colourwash, distemper, malaise). (various references)

Russian		раздражительность (crustiness, grumpiness, impatience, irascibility, irritability, peevishness, petulance, petulancy, soreness, temper, testiness, touchiness). (various references)

Scottish		coirbeachd (perverseness). (various references)

Spanish		mal humor (bad mood, bad temper, fretfulness, grouch, grouchiness, grumpiness, ill humor, ill humour, moodiness, peeve, peevishness, petulance, spleen, surliness). (various references)

Swedish		vrede (anger, choler, irasciblere, ire, passion, spleen, wrat, wrath). (various references)

Turkish		terslik (acerbity, acrimony, awkwardness, biliousness, contrariety, contrariness, cussedness, hitch, ill luck, misadventure, misfortune, moods, perversity, reverse, reversion, shortness, sullenness, tartness), kızgınlık (anger, choler, fervor, fervour, furor, furore, fury, gall, glow, heat, huffiness, ill blood, indignation, ire, irritation, must, rut, wax), huysuzluk (acerbity, acrimony, bad temper, bile, biliousness, crankiness, cussedness, devilry, disagreeableness, distemper, fractiousness, grouch, grouchiness, huff, moodiness, pettishness, petulance, sourness, spleen, surliness, temper, vice, viciousness), aksilik (awkwardness, bile, contrariety, contrariness, contretemps, dourness, fractiousness, gruffness, hardness, hitch, ill luck, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, moodiness, moods, perversity, petulance, recalcitrance, reverse, rotten luck, setback, slip, slip up, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, testiness, trouble, vexatiousness). (various references)

Ukrainian		сварливість (angularity, ill humor, ill humour), роздратованість (bile, chafing). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự gắt gỏng, sự cáu kỉnh (fret, temper), sự bực tức (spleen). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "crossness": crossnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Crossness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Rosswess. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "crossness" (pronounced 'Cross"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-n-o-r-s-s-s-s"
	-2 letters: censors, crosses, sensors.
	-3 letters: censor, corses, crones, crosse, recons, scones, scores, scorns, senors, sensor, snores.
	-4 letters: ceros, cones, cores, corns, corse, coses, cress, crone, cross, noses, onces, recon, roses, scone, score, scorn, senor, snore, sones, sores, sorns.
	-5 letters: cero, cess, cone, cons, core, corn, cors, coss, eons, erns, eros, ness, noes, nose, once, ones.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-n-o-r-s-s-s-s"
	+2 letters: crossnesses, rescissions.
	+3 letters: coarsenesses, scabrousness.
	+4 letters: colorlessness, curiousnesses, cursorinesses, obscurenesses, raucousnesses.
	+5 letters: canorousnesses, censoriousness, cocksurenesses, cumbrousnesses, decorousnesses, graciousnesses, percussionists, preciousnesses, scabrousnesses, scornfulnesses, scrupulousness, scurrilousness.
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Crossness

Definition: Crossness

Crossness

Noun

Synonyms: Crossness

Synonyms within Context: Crossness

Irascibility

Crosswords: Crossness

Use in Literature: Crossness

Emma

Austen, Jane

Usage Frequency: Crossness

Modern Translation: Crossness

Bulgarian

Finnish

German

Greek

Hungarian

Manx

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Russian

Scottish

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Derivations & Misspellings: Crossness

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Crossness"

Anagrams: Crossness

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