cranky

/'kræɳki/

Thân thiện

The baby gets cranky when he misses his afternoon nap.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Easily irritated or annoyed: Describes a person who is frequently in a bad mood, quick to become angry or impatient.
   • Eccentric, strange: Describes something or someone that is odd, peculiar, or unconventional in behavior or ideas.
   • Unsteady, shaky: Describes a structure, especially a boat, that is unstable or liable to tip over easily.

Usage Examples

• Describing a person's mood:
  • The long wait made him very cranky.
  • She gets cranky when she hasn't had enough sleep.
• Describing eccentricity:
  • He has some cranky ideas about modern art.
  • The old inventor was known for his cranky but brilliant designs.
• Describing instability:
  • The small, cranky boat was difficult to sail in rough water.

Advanced Usage

• "to be in a cranky mood": to be temporarily irritable.
  • Ignore him; he's just in a cranky mood today.
• Used informally to describe malfunctioning machinery that is temperamental.
  • The cranky old printer finally stopped working.

Variants and Related Words

• Crankily (adverb): In an irritable or eccentric manner.
  • He answered crankily when asked about the delay.
• Crankiness (noun): The state of being irritable or eccentric.
  • His morning crankiness is legendary in the office.

Synonyms

• Irritable: Easily annoyed.
• Grouchy: Bad-tempered and complaining.
• Cantankerous: Bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative.
• Eccentric: Unconventional and slightly strange.
• Unstable: Not steady; likely to change or fail.

Related Phrases

• Cranky pants (informal, humorous): A playful term for someone who is being irritable.
  • Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed and is being a real cranky pants.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. easily irritated or annoyed
   • an incorrigibly fractious young man
   • not the least nettlesome of his countrymen
2. (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

Từ đồng nghĩa

• crank
• tender
• tippy