crabbed 音标拼音: [kr'æbd]
a . 乖张的,执拗的,难解的
乖张的,执拗的,难解的
crabbed adj 1 :
annoyed and irritable [
synonym : {
crabbed }, {
crabby }, {
cross },
{
fussy }, {
grouchy }, {
grumpy }, {
bad -
tempered }, {
ill -
tempered }]
Crabbed \
Crab "
bed \ (
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b ?
d ),
a . [
See {
Crab },
n .]
1 .
Characterized by or manifesting ,
sourness ,
peevishness ,
or moroseness ;
harsh ;
cross ;
cynical ; --
applied to feelings ,
disposition ,
or manners .
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1913 Webster ]
Crabbed age and youth can not live together . --
Shak .
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1913 Webster ]
2 .
Characterized by harshness or roughness ;
unpleasant ; --
applied to things ;
as ,
a crabbed taste .
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3 .
Obscure ;
difficult ;
perplexing ;
trying ;
as ,
a crabbed author . "
Crabbed eloquence ." --
Chaucer .
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How charming is divine philosophy !
Not harsh and crabbed ,
as dull fools suppose .
--
Milton .
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4 .
Cramped ;
irregular ;
as ,
crabbed handwriting . --
{
Crab "
bed *
ly },
adv . -- {
Crab "
bed *
ness },
n .
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1913 Webster ]
142 Moby Thesaurus words for "
crabbed ":
Byzantine ,
acerb ,
acerbate ,
acerbic ,
acescent ,
anile ,
balled up ,
bearish ,
beyond one ,
bitchy ,
blunt ,
brusque ,
cankered ,
cantankerous ,
choleric ,
churlish ,
complex ,
complicated ,
confounded ,
confused ,
convoluted ,
crab ,
cramp ,
cranky ,
cross ,
cross -
grained ,
crusty ,
cussed ,
daedal ,
debilitated ,
decrepit ,
devious ,
difficult ,
disagreeable ,
doddered ,
doddering ,
doddery ,
dour ,
dry ,
elaborate ,
embrangled ,
entangled ,
excitable ,
feeble ,
feisty ,
fossilized ,
fouled up ,
fractious ,
garbled ,
gerontal ,
gerontic ,
gloomy ,
glum ,
green ,
gruff ,
hard ,
hard to understand ,
huffish ,
huffy ,
implicated ,
infirm ,
intricate ,
involuted ,
involved ,
irascible ,
irritable ,
jumbled ,
knotted ,
knotty ,
labyrinthian ,
labyrinthine ,
loused up ,
many -
faceted ,
matted ,
mazy ,
mean ,
meandering ,
messed up ,
mixed up ,
morose ,
mossbacked ,
moth -
eaten ,
mucked up ,
multifarious ,
mummylike ,
obfuscated ,
obscure ,
obscured ,
ornery ,
overtechnical ,
palsied ,
papery -
skinned ,
perplexed ,
perverse ,
pickled ,
pungent ,
ramified ,
ravaged with age ,
rickety ,
roundabout ,
run to seed ,
rusty ,
saturnine ,
scrambled ,
screwed up ,
sec ,
senile ,
shaky ,
shriveled ,
snappish ,
snarled ,
sour ,
sour as vinegar ,
soured ,
sourish ,
spiteful ,
spleeny ,
splenetic ,
stricken in years ,
subtle ,
sulky ,
surly ,
tangled ,
tangly ,
tart ,
tartish ,
testy ,
timeworn ,
tottering ,
tottery ,
tough ,
twisted ,
ugly ,
unripe ,
unsweet ,
unsweetened ,
vinegarish ,
vinegary ,
waspish ,
weak ,
withered ,
wizened
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