Synonyms of crabby

1 Syllable

blunt, gruff, glum, cross, sour, dour, tart, harsh, tough, trying

2 Syllables

awkward, grumpy, huffy, surly, cranky, waspish, chuffy, captious, snappish, fractious, prickly, crabbed, sulky, fretful, peevish, mumpish, kvetching, gruffer, putout, crustier, testy, crankier, crankiest, crosser, sullen, pouty, beefing, crusty, grouchy, ennuied, fed-up, put-out, churlish, huffier, pettish, ructious, gruffest, grumpier, acrid, brusque, acid, gloomy, huffish

3 Syllables

choleric, petulant, crotchety, ornery, cavillous, plaintive, difficult, cynical, sourpussed, unsated, splenetic, disgruntled, cat-and-dog, morose, perverse

4 Syllables

misanthropic, ill-natured, saturnine, ill-tempered, irascible, bad-tempered, quarrelsome, short-tempered, exceptive, ill-humored, dissatisfied, discontented, perversive, unsociable, unappeased, malcontented, unassuaged, tempersome, ungratified, acrimonious

5 Syllables

nasty-tempered