cross-grained
cross-grained adjective: having an irregular rather than a parallel grain.
Adjective
cross-grained (not comparable)
- Having an irregular rather than a parallel grain.
- Difficult to deal with; contrary or troublesome.
- It is quite wonderful to me, in such a cross-grained, hardening, and harsh world as ours, where she can have contrived to keep so much of open, fresh, and kindly feeling.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 151–152
- It was my old cross-grained companion, Professor Summerlee. "What!" he cried. "Don't tell me that you have had one of these preposterous telegrams for oxygen?" I exhibited it.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
cross-grained meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
cross-grained in Tamil
- முரண்டு
cross-grained in Malayalam
- irascible, bad-tempered, cantankerous
- തലതിരിഞ്ഞ, മുരട്ടുസ്വഭാവമുള്ള, ക്ഷിപ്രകോപം വരുന്ന, വേഗം കോപം വരുന്ന, വിരുദ്ധമായ, വഴക്കാളിയായ
Words formed from cross-grained
Questions about cross-grained
- What does cross-grained mean?
- Cross-grained means having an irregular rather than a parallel grain.
- What is cross-grained in Tamil?
- Cross-grained in Tamil is முரண்டு. See Cross-grained meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is cross-grained?
- Cross-grained is an adjective.
Words near cross-grained in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cross-grained (page history and authors); cross-grained (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cross-grained (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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