English → Latin
“crabbedly” in Latin
acerbusharsh, bitter, unripe, sour, premature, not yet marriageable; sharp, severe, bitter (i.e., extremely painful); rough, viasperrough, uneven, coarse; unrefined, rude; sharp, newly mintedmolestustroublesome, irksome, grievous, annoying, tiresomedūrushard; rough; harsh; hardy; vigorousobscūrusdark, dusky, shadowy; indistinct, unintelligible, obscure; intricate, involved, complicatedimplicitusentangled, confused; implicated, involvedperplexusentangled, involved, intricate, confused; unintelligible, complicated, intricate, inscrutable, ambiguous; dark, obscureabstrūdōto push or thrust away; conceal, hide
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
crabbedly
acerbe; aspere; moleste; dure; duriter; obscure; implicite; perplexe; abstruse. SYN. in CRABBED.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for crabbedly?
- The usual Latin words for “crabbedly” are acerbus, asper, molestus; also dūrus, obscūrus, implicitus. 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.