Crabbed vs Tempestuous - What's the difference?
crabbed | tempestuous | Related terms |
Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
Cramped, bent.
* 1800(?) Robert Southey, Winter
(of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
(crab)
Crabbed is a related term of tempestuous.
As adjectives the difference between crabbed and tempestuous
is that crabbed is bad-tempered or cantankerous while tempestuous is of, or resembling a tempest; stormy, tumultuous.As a verb crabbed
is (crab).crabbed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee,
- Old Winter, with a rugged beard as grey
- As the long moss upon the apple-tree;