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- Dictionarycrank·y/ˈkraNGkē/
adjective
- 1. ill-tempered; irritable: informal "he was bored and cranky after eight hours of working" Similar
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easily annoyed or upset: a cranky baby. He's been cranky all day. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. getting angry easily. bad-tempered He's so bad-tempered! He never should have become a teacher. irritable Be careful what you say; he's very irritable today. grumpy I'm just a little tired and grumpy today.
The meaning of CRANKY is given to fretful fussiness : readily angered when opposed : crotchety. How to use cranky in a sentence.
Definition of 'cranky' Word Frequency. cranky. (kræŋki ) Word forms: comparative crankier, superlative crankiest. 1. adjective. If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange. [informal, disapproval] Vegetarianism has shed its cranky image.
easily annoyed or upset: a cranky baby. He's been cranky all day. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. getting angry easily. bad-tempered He's so bad-tempered! He never should have become a teacher. irritable Be careful what you say; he's very irritable today. grumpy I'm just a little tired and grumpy today.
A cranky person doesn't get furious or outraged, they're just easier than usual to annoy—things get on their nerves more quickly than they do for other people. You could think of someone who's cranky as having actual crank.
Cranky definition: ill-tempered; grouchy; cross. See examples of CRANKY used in a sentence.
adj. crank·i·er, crank·i·est. 1. Having a bad disposition; peevish. 2. Having eccentric ways; odd. 3. Full of bends and turns; crooked: a cranky mountain road. 4. Working unpredictably; erratic: a cranky old truck.
Definition of cranky adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
cranky. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English crank‧y /ˈkræŋki/ adjective 1 British English informal strange → eccentric, weird Organic farming is no longer thought of as cranky. 2 informal bad-tempered I was feeling tired and cranky. —crankiness noun [ uncountable] Examples from the Corpus cranky • They became cranky and ...
If you don't feed soon, you'll start getting cranky and I need you happy. The toddlers were both tired and cranky . His cranky words echoed in her thoughts, and she smiled to herself.
