Illegible vs Crabbed - What's the difference?
illegible | crabbed |
Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
Cramped, bent.
* 1800(?) Robert Southey, Winter
(of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
(crab)
As adjectives the difference between illegible and crabbed
is that illegible is not clear enough to be read; unreadable; not legible or decipherable while crabbed is bad-tempered or cantankerous.As a verb crabbed is
(crab).illegible
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Antonyms
* legibleSynonyms
* dirty * foul * indecipherable * marked-up * unclear * undecipherable * unreadableSee also
* illegiblycrabbed
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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;