cantankerous
معنی فارسی
چموش بدخلق بداخم فتنه جو
معنی کامل و مثالها
/kan taŋ´kǝr ǝs/adj.
● بد خلق، کج خلق، بد اخم، دعوایی، زود خشم، تندخو، گهگیر، ناتو، بد قلق
ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
Origin uncertain, possibly from 'contankerous' (a blend of 'contentious' + 'rancorous').
مثال
- He became cantankerous in his old age.
- She has a cantankerous personality.
- The cantankerous old man yelled at the kids.
ترکیبهای رایج
Cantankerous old man Cantankerous personality Become cantankerous Cantankerous customers
تعریف انگلیسی
- stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate “unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator” “Regions: United Kingdom, UK, U.K., Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain”
- having a difficult and contrary disposition “a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers”
مترادفها
adjective
(Colloquial) Crabbed, perverse, stubborn, obstinate, unyielding, refractory, contumacious, headstrong, wilful, dogged, intractable, heady, obdurate, stiff, cross grained.