English → Latin
“crabbed” in Latin
mōrōsuscaptious, persnickety, fastidious, difficult (to please); peevish, wayward, capriciousacerbusharsh, bitter, unripe, sour, premature, not yet marriageable; sharp, severe, bitter (i.e., extremely painful); rough, vitrīstissad, unhappy, melancholy, morose; sorrowful, mournful; disagreeable, harsh, bitter (of taste)tetricusforbidding, harsh, crabbed, gloomy, sour, stern, severeintractābilisunmanageable, intractableingrātusunpleasant, disagreeable; thankless; ungratefulīnsuāvisunpleasant, disagreeablegravisheavy; pregnant; troublesome, hardmolestustroublesome, irksome, grievous, annoying, tiresomeodiōsushateful, odious, vexatious, offensive, unpleasant, disagreeable, annoying, troublesome
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
crabbed
Morose, morosus: acerbus: tristis: male affectus: tetricus: intractabilis [SYN. in MOROSE].
Unpleasant, rough, ingratus; insuavis; gravis; molestus; odiosus.
Difficult or intricate, obscurus: abstrusus (e.g., disputatio): perplexus (intricate; e.g., sermones, carmen): durus (rough, inharmonious; of style, verses, etc.): impeditus (difficult to understand): implicatus (confused).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for crabbed?
- The usual Latin words for “crabbed” are mōrōsus, acerbus, trīstis; also tetricus, intractābilis, ingrātus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.