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- Dictionaryor·ner·y/ˈôrn(ə)rē/
adjective
- 1. bad-tempered and combative: informal North American "some hogs are just mean and ornery"
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The meaning of ORNERY is having an irritable disposition : cantankerous. How to use ornery in a sentence. What's the History of ornery?
adjective. US uk / ˈɔː.n ə r.i / us / ˈɔːr.nɚ.i / Add to word list. likely to get angry and argue with people: He had been in an ornery mood all day, arguing with everyone who got in his way. Synonyms. cantankerous. crotchety informal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Bad-tempered. argumentative. bad-tempered. be hell on wheels idiom.
A person can have a consistently ornery personality, or maybe you’re feeling ornery today because you skipped breakfast. Some synonyms for ornery are cantankerous and crotchety, words that sound as grumpy as the people they describe.
Ornery definition: ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper. See examples of ORNERY used in a sentence.
If you describe someone as ornery, you mean that they are bad-tempered, difficult, and often do things that are mean.
Meaning of ornery in English. ornery. adjective. US us / ˈɔːr.nɚ.i / uk / ˈɔː.n ə r.i / Add to word list. likely to get angry and argue with people: He had been in an ornery mood all day, arguing with everyone who got in his way. Synonyms. cantankerous. crotchety informal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Bad-tempered. argumentative.
Ornery definition: Mean-spirited, disagreeable, and contrary in disposition; cantankerous.
If you describe someone as ornery, you mean that they are bad-tempered, difficult, and often do things that are mean.
Define ornery. ornery synonyms, ornery pronunciation, ornery translation, English dictionary definition of ornery. adj. or·ner·i·er , or·ner·i·est Mean-spirited, disagreeable, and contrary in disposition; cantankerous. or′ner·i·ness′ n.
Definition of ornery adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
