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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cantankerous/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cantankerous/#x1)
- The cantankerous old man shouted at the children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cantankerous/#x2)
- Nobody wanted to help the cantankerous farmer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cantankerous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cantankerous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cantankerous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.