What is another word for "crabbed"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "crabbed": acerb, acescent, acetic, acetose, acetous, acid, acidify, acidity, acidulate, acidulous, alum, ambiguity, call, crab, darkness, edge, fermentation, hard, inexactness, involution, involved, lactic, lemon, low, meaning, neologism, obscure, obscurity, render, rough, set, sour, sourish, sourness, styptic, subacid, tart, teeth, the, turn.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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