'ornery' definitions:
Definition of 'ornery'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers [syn: cantankerous, crotchety, ornery]
Synonyms of 'ornery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aureate,
- baleful,
- balky,
- base,
- bearish,
- bitchy,
- bombastic,
- breachy,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- churlish,
- common,
- consonant,
- contrary,
- contumacious,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crotchety,
- crusty,
- cussed,
- declamatory,
- defiant,
- difficult,
- disagreeable,
- euphuistic,
- excitable,
- feisty,
- flowery,
- fractious,
- froward,
- grandiloquent,
- harmful,
- hateful,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- impatient of control,
- iniquitous,
- invidious,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- loud,
- magniloquent,
- malefic,
- maleficent,
- malicious,
- malign,
- malignant,
- mean,
- nasty,
- noxious,
- obstreperous,
- oratorical,
- orotund,
- paltry,
- perverse,
- plangent,
- poor,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- resounding,
- restive,
- ringing,
- rotund,
- round,
- rubbishy,
- shoddy,
- sleazy,
- snappish,
- sonorous,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- stentorian,
- stuffy,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- tatty,
- testy,
- ugly,
- unruly,
- vibrant,
- vinegarish,
- vinegary,
- waspish,
- wayward,
- wicked,
- wild,
- wrongheaded