GRUMPY - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 25/04/2020

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue GRUMPY.

4 letter answer(s) to grumpy

  1. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie
  2. showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
  3. stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
  4. Sullen
  1. a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
  2. go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
  3. having a sharp biting taste
  4. in an unpalatable state; "sour milk"
  5. inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
  6. make sour or more sour
  7. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
  8. showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
  9. smelling of fermentation or staleness
  10. the property of being acidic
  11. the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth

9 letter answer(s) to grumpy

  1. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
  2. stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"
  3. unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system"

Frequently asked questions about ‘GRUMPY’

What's the best solution for GRUMPY?

The most likely answer for the crossword clue GRUMPY is DOUR. Other possible answers include FRACTIOUS, SOUR.

How many solutions are there for GRUMPY?

We have found 3 possible answers for the crossword clue GRUMPY.

Which crosswords feature clues like GRUMPY?

Clues like GRUMPY often appear in daily crosswords from publications such as The i Paper, Sunday People, The Observer Speedy, The Guardian Prize, Financial Times Polymath, among others.


Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'GRUMPY'

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Gloomy19
Harsh10
Bar order7
Go bad7
Unruly7
Forbidding6
Not sweet5
Tart5
Glum4
Grim4
Acid3
Moody3
Morose3
Saturnine3
Sullen3
Lip-puckering2
Whiskey ___2
Acid-tasting1
Acidic1
Almost convinced about old tart1
Become disenchanted1
Causing puckering, perhap1
Causing the lips to pucke1
Cocktail you are delivered by standing order1
Cross and quarrelsome1
Curdled1
Down (on)1
Far from perky1
Follow archaeological tourists, perhaps, becoming glum1
Gloomy party you’re texting1
Gloomy passion out of Arabia1
Grim person achieving things, we hear1
Hardly upbeat1
Ill-humored1
Irritable, as I tangled with four cats1
Kind of grapes1
Like a lemon1
Like a lime1
Like unripe apples1
Love uniform when in senior rank1
Making the mouth pucker, 1
Off, as a note1
Old bit of French bread right for tart1
Severe, stern, gloomy1
Skittles variety1
Stern or gloomy1
Sweet's partner1
Tart, acidic1
Unopened perfume's grim1

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