crossness

Other forms of crossness

plural

crossnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crossness

What does crossness mean?

crossness means "an irritable petulant feeling". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crossness?

crossness has 2 syllables: cros-sness. The stress falls on "cros".

What is another word for crossness?

Close synonyms include irritability, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crossness a common word?

crossness 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.