Antonyms for crabby

Grammar : Adj

Spell : krab-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkræb i

Definition of crabby

Origin : 1520s, in now-obsolete sense "crooked, gnarled, rough," from extended sense of crab (n.1) + -y (2). Meaning "disagreeable, sour, peevish" is attested from 1776, American English. Both senses were found earlier in crabbed.

adj irritable

Example sentences :

When the latter arrived he seemed in a crabby frame of mind.
Extract from : « Jokes For All Occasions » by Anonymous

Let us go downstairs after old Crabby is to bed and play some trick on him.
Extract from : « The Putnam Hall Rivals » by Arthur M. Winfield

Crabby—old Crabby Tompkins, a trapper, is buried in the sand on the Frazer.
Extract from : « The Hunted Woman » by James Oliver Curwood

You know, you crabby dear, you wouldn't neglect an old dog or an old pony after it had served you.
Extract from : « A Dream of the North Sea » by James Runciman

There comes a time when a woman has to make up her mind to choose between being called a 'dear old soul' or a 'crabby old thing.'
Extract from : « Her Royal Highness Woman » by Max O'Rell

Time was getting short, and it was no use wasting time on my crabby landlady.
Extract from : « My Friend Smith » by Talbot Baines Reed

Accordingly the Hermit exerted himself to please, and it would really have taken more than three crabby boys to resist him.
Extract from : « A Little Bush Maid » by Mary Grant Bruce

Persius is crabby, because ancient, and his jerks (being particularly given to private customs of his time) dusky.
Extract from : « The Works of John Marston » by John Marston

I entertained myself with keeping her to the subject, and that made her crabby.
Extract from : « Rene Mauperin » by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt

I woke disoriented and crabby, without my customary morning jolt of endorphin.
Extract from : « Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom » by Cory Doctorow

Synonyms for crabby

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