Having a difficult and contrary disposition.

synonyms: cantankerous, ornery.

Roget 481: misjudging etc. v.; ill-judging, wrong-headed; prejudiced etc. v.; jaundiced; shortsighted, purblind; partial, one-sided, superficial.    narrow-minded, narrow-souled^†; mean-spirited; confined, illiberal, intolerant, besotted, infatuated, fanatical, entete [Fr.], positive, dogmatic, conceited; opinative, opiniative^†; opinioned, opinionate, opinionative, opinionated; self-opinioned, wedded to an opinion, opini=atre; bigoted etc. (obstinate) 606; crotchety, fussy, impracticable; unreasonable, stupid etc. 499; credulous etc. 486; warped.    misjudged etc. v.. ... show more

Roget 606: obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened; inflexible etc. (hard) 323; balky; immovable, unshakable, not to be moved; inert etc. 172; unchangeable etc. 150; inexorable etc. (determined) 604; mulish, obstinate as a mule, pig-headed.    dogged; sullen, sulky; unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected.    willful, self-willed, perverse; resty^†, restive, restiff^†; pervicacious^†, wayward, refractory, unruly; heady, headstrong; entete [Fr.]; contumacious; crossgrained^†.    arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted; prejudiced etc. 481; creed-bound; prepossessed, infatuated; stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted; hard-mouthed, hidebound; unyielding; impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible^†; unpersuadable; intractable, untractable^†; incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason; crotchety etc. 608.    ... show more

Roget 608: capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims etc. n.; maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky [U.S.], particular, humorsome^†, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward; contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable etc. 83; penny wise and pound foolish; fickle etc. (irresolute) 605; frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile.    ... show more