Resentful vs Crabbed - What's the difference?
resentful | crabbed | Related terms |
Inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when .
Harboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment.
Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
Cramped, bent.
* 1800(?) Robert Southey, Winter
(of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
(crab)
Resentful is a related term of crabbed.
As adjectives the difference between resentful and crabbed
is that resentful is inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when while crabbed is bad-tempered or cantankerous.As a verb crabbed is
(crab).resentful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (Inclined to resent) unforgiving, spiteful * (Full of resentment) bitterDerived terms
* resentfully * resentfulnessReferences
* * *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;