crankiness
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- noun
- /ˈkræŋkɪnəs/
:
irritabilidad
- The child's crankiness during the long car ride was evident as they kept asking, 'Are we there yet?'
Another aspect is the lows Moody might experience, for example, sustained periods of sadness or crankiness.
- Another aspect is the lows Moody might experience, for example, sustained periods of sadness or crankiness.
- Our mood, our impatience, our crankiness, our fatigue, right, our body weight, all that when it's all those things are indicators.
Examples
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After skipping breakfast, her crankiness made it hard for her to concentrate all morning.
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I find I am able to transform crankiness around me into fun and light-heartedness.
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I cannot imagine her being a good role model to anyone, and lately her crankiness has become disturbing.
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And she tends to have that bit of crankiness that all beautiful women seem to possess.
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Well, it looks like crankiness runs in the McGinty family.
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Ignoring crankiness is clearly an important skill that I'm still learning.
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Forgive my recent crankiness.
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Her crankiness would depend on how much caffeine she had already swallowed.
Fiction book (2001) -
I've been suffering exhaustion and crankiness.
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I'm sure all the parents were prepared for the only realistic consequence of taking a kid to a midnight movie: next-day crankiness.
Blog text (14)
Synonyms
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4.2
Being easily annoyed or quick to become angry
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Being easily annoyed and acting childish
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4.1
A feeling of being easily annoyed
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A feeling of being easily annoyed and quick to lose patience
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7.3
A tendency to become easily annoyed and impatient
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A mood of being easily annoyed and bad-tempered
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A state of being easily annoyed and in a bad mood
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A state of being easily upset or hard to please
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9.9
Being easily annoyed, stubborn, and hard to get along with
A tendency to be odd, fussy, or easily annoyed
A tendency to become easily annoyed and show anger
Often being bad-tempered and hard to please
A feeling of being nervous, annoyed, or easily upset
A grumpy mood that makes you rude to other people
Antonyms
How Irritable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crankiness comes from cranky, and that goes back to crank, which once meant 'bent' or 'unwell' and then 'odd' or 'easily annoyed'. That's why crankiness means being easily irritated or acting fussy.