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

DOUR
  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
SOUR
  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

FRACTIOUS
  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"

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