cantankerously

1. 1.

   in a bad mood

   “he answered her cantankerously”

Questions about cantankerously

What does cantankerously mean?

cantankerously means "in a bad mood".

How many syllables are in cantankerously?

cantankerously has 5 syllables and divides as can-tan-ke-rou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is cantankerously a common word?

cantankerously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.