Crabbed vs Turbulent - What's the difference?
crabbed | turbulent | Related terms |
Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
Cramped, bent.
* 1800(?) Robert Southey, Winter
(of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
(crab)
Violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.
Being in, or causing, disturbance or unrest.
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Crabbed is a related term of turbulent.
As adjectives the difference between crabbed and turbulent
is that crabbed is bad-tempered or cantankerous while turbulent is violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, 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;
Derived terms
* crabbedly * crabbednessVerb
(head)turbulent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.}}