Synonyms of cantankerous

1 Syllable

cross, sour, dour, mule, grim

2 Syllables

tetchier, grumpy, loutish, huffy, moody, swinish, snarly, cloddish, cranky, captious, waspy, snappish, prickly, crabbed, grousing, peevish, stubborn, grumbly, scrappy, crustier, boorish, testy, crankier, tough-nut, crankiest, crosser, touchy, stuffy, grouchier, beefing, crusty, grouchy, bearish, moodier, touchier, testier, clownish, toucher, scrappier, churlish, tetchy, grimmer, pettish, ructious, grumpier, grimmest, touchiest

3 Syllables

choleric, petulant, clodhopping, crotchety, ornery, cavillous, hardline, plaintive, self-willed, unpliable, uncordial, liverish, splenetic, unfeeling, pugnacious, uncompliant, critical, contrary, cat-and-dog, morose, hardnosed, querulous, perverse

4 Syllables

ill-natured, belligerent, bad-mannered, disagreeable, ill-tempered, irascible, bad-tempered, quarrelsome, short-tempered, exceptive, vinegarish, vinegary, atrabilious, ill-humored, disputatious, ironhearted, combative, unamiable, out-of-order, inurbane, perversive, irritable, intractable, obstinate, unbendable

5 Syllables

confrontational

6 Syllables

oversensitive, opinionative