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cantankerous has 3 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 2 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
“unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for cantankerous come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.