cantankerous

«cantankerous» in Mova's school dictionary: bad-tempered, quarrelsome and hard to please — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (more cantankerous, most cantankerous)

meaning for a pupil

Cantankerous means bad-tempered, quarrelsome and hard to please. tree →

sense in the lessons

describes a grumpy, nagging person in a tale, such as a cross wife who argues about everything

examples

• My grandad is cantankerous before breakfast. tree →
• The cantankerous old man shouted at the children. tree →
• Nobody wanted to help the cantankerous farmer. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cantankerous» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.