cranky

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: crank=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

cranky, a. 

•  Full of spirit; crank.  [1913 Webster]
•  Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions; crotchety.  [1913 Webster]
•  Unsteady; easy to upset; crank.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cranky, adj. (crankier, crankiest)
1 colloq. eccentric, esp. obsessed with a particular theory (cranky ideas about women).
2 working badly; shaky.
3 esp. US ill-tempered or crotchety.

Derivative

crankily adv. crankiness n.

Etymology

perh. f. obs. crank rogue feigning sickness

THESAURUS

cranky

abnormal, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, arbitrary, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, bearish, beefing, bellyaching, bitching, bitchy, breakaway, cankered, cantankerous, capricious, choleric, churlish, clashing, complaining, complaintful, conflicting, contentious, contradicting, contradictory, contrary, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, crabbed, crabbing, crabby, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, crank, crankish, crazed, crazy, croaking, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cuckoo, cussed, daffy, daft, deviant, deviative, different, differing, difficult, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disappointed, discontented, discordant, discrepant, disgruntled, disharmonious, displeased, disproportionate, dissatisfied, dissident, dissonant, divergent, dotty, eccentric, envious, erratic, exceptional, excitable, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, faultfinding, feisty, fey, flaky, fractious, freakish, froward, funny, grating, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, gruff, grumbling, harebrained, hostile, hot-tempered, huffish, huffy, humorsome, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, ill-humored, immiscible, inaccordant, incompatible, inharmonious, inimical, irascible, irregular, irritable, jangling, jarring, kinky, kooky, maggoty, malcontent, malcontented, mean, moody, motiveless, murmuring, muttering, negative, nonconformist, notional, nutty, odd, oddball, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, ornery, out of accord, out of humor, out of sorts, out of whack, peculiar, peevish, perverse, petulant, queer, querulant, querulous, quick-tempered, quirky, ratty, reactionary, rebellious, recalcitrant, renitent, repugnant, resentful, resistant, restive, restless, revolutionary, screwball, screwy, short-tempered, singular, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, strange, sulky, surly, temperamental, testy, tetchy, touchy, twisted, ugly, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uncongenial, unconventional, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unharmonious, unnatural, unreasonable, unrestrained, unsatisfied, vagarious, vagrant, variant, vinegarish, vinegary, wacky, wanton, waspish, wayward, weird, whimsical, whiny

ROGET THESAURUS

cranky

Disease

N disease, illness, sickness, ailing, all the ills that flesh is heir to, morbidity, morbosity, infirmity, ailment, indisposition, complaint, disorder, malady, distemper, distemperature, visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit, delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy, cachexia, atrophy, marasmus, indigestion, dyspepsia, decay, decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration, taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity, infestation, epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic, murrain, plague, pestilence, pox, sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil, pimple, wen, carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue, rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore, cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor, caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy, eruption, rash, breaking out, fever, temperature, calenture, inflammation, ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis, Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera, biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea, blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash, breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever, heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy, hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis, cholera, asphyxia, chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre, enanthem, enanthema, erysipelas, exanthem, exanthema, gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness, grip, grippe, influenza, flu, hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw, measles, mumps, polio, necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough, yellow fever, yellow jack, fatal disease, dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough, general breaking up, break up of the system, idiocy insanity, martyr to disease, cripple, the halt the lame and the blind, valetudinary, valetudinarian, invalid, patient, case, sickroom, sick- chamber, pathology, etiology, nosology, anthrax, bighead, blackleg, blackquarter, cattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness, heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms, quarter-evil, quarter-ill, rinderpest, virus, bacterium, bacteria, DNA virus, RNA virus, rhinovirus, rhabdovirus, picornavirus, herpesvirus, cytomegalovirus, CMV, human immunodefficiency virus, HIV, diseased, ailing, ill, ill of, taken ill, seized with, indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy, affected with illness, afflicted with illness, laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list, out of health, out of sorts, under the weather, valetudinary, unsound, unhealthy, sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced, drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting, morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered, rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core, withered, palsied, paralytic, dyspeptic, luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic, syntectic, syntectical, tabetic, varicose, touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping, hors de combat, weakly, weakened, decrepit, decayed, incurable, in declining health, cranky, in a bad way, in danger, prostrate, moribund, morbific epidemic, endemic, zymotic.

Weakness

N weakness, debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation, impotence, infirmity, effeminacy, feminality, fragility, flaccidity, inactivity, anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood, declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength, delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain, reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards, softling, weakling, infant, youth, weak, feeble, debile, impotent, relaxed, unnerved sapless, strengthless, powerless, weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic, nervous, soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly, frail, fragile, shattery, flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread, rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky, craichy, drooping, tottering, broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky, palsied, decrepit, languid, poor, infirm, faint, faintish, sickly, dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete, weather-beaten, decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear, unstrengthened, unsupported, unaided, unassisted, aidless, defenseless, cantilevered (support), on its last legs, weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat, weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, colorless, non sum qualis eram.