Thesaurus

Synonyms for Cantankerous include:

atrabilious, bad-tempered, bilious, bloody-minded, bolshy, bristly, bullet-headed, bullheaded, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, contrarious, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, curmudgeonly, currish, dark, determined, disagreeable, disobedient, dogged, dour, dyspeptic, fractious, fussy, glowering, glum, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, hardheaded, hot-tempered, hotheaded, huffish, ill-humored, ill-humoured, ill-natured, ill-tempered, inflexible, intractable, irascible, irritable, liverish, misanthropic, misanthropical, misogynous, moody, morose, mulish, nagging, nettlesome, obstinate, ornery, peckish, peevish, pertinacious, pettish, petulant, pigheaded, prickly, quick-tempered, saturnine, scratchy, shirty, short-tempered, shrewish, snappish, snappy, snorty, sour, splenetic, spoiled, spoilt, stiff-necked, strong-minded, strong-willed, stroppy, stubborn, sturdy, sulky, sullen, surly, techy, tenacious, testy, tetchy, ugly, uncompromising, unpleasant, unregenerate, unyielding, vinegarish, vinegary, waspish

cantankerous is a ADJ.