crossest

Adjective

cross (comparative crosser, superlative crossest)

1. Transverse; lying across the main direction.
   • At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.
2. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
   • His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.

   Synonyms:

   contrarily, opposed, reverse, antipodal

3. (archaic) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
   • As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences., New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50
4. (UK, Ottawa Valley) (of someone) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed; (of words) tinged with anger.
   • They exchanged a few cross words.

   Synonyms:

   angry, annoyed, irritated

5. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
   • cross interrogatories
6. Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
   • As my father remarked to me when I stole on deck to view the state of affairs, the sea was a "cross one," and very difficult to steer against.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 15

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