English-Thai Dictionary

cross-grained

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CROSS-GRAINED

a. 1. Having the grain or fibers across or irregular; as in timber, where a branch shoots from the trunk, there is a curling of the grain.
2. Perverse; untractable; not condescending.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

cross-grain

cross-grain ▶adjective running across the regular grain in timber: cross-grain swelling.

 

cross-grained

cross-grained ▶adjective (of timber ) having a grain that runs across the regular grain. • stubbornly contrary or bad-tempered: Bruce was a cross-grained and boastful individual.

 

Oxford Dictionary

cross-grain

cross-grain |ˈkrɒsɡreɪn | ▶adjective [ attrib. ] running across the regular grain in timber: cross-grain swelling.

 

cross-grained

cross-grained |ˈkrɒsɡreɪnd | ▶adjective 1 (of timber ) having a grain that runs across the regular grain. 2 stubbornly contrary or bad-tempered: Bruce was a cross-grained and boastful individual.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

cross-grained

cross-grained adjective old people as a group are neither sweet nor cross-grained: awkward, difficult, uncooperative, perverse, contrary, unhelpful, obstructive, disobliging, unaccommodating, unreasonable, troublesome, tiresome, annoying, vexatious, disobedient, recalcitrant, refractory, wilful, headstrong, self-willed, capricious, wayward; stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, mulish, pig-headed, bull-headed, intractable; Scottish thrawn; informal cussed; Brit. informal bloody-minded, bolshie, stroppy; N. Amer. informal balky; archaic froward, contumacious; rare renitent, pervicacious, contrarious. ANTONYMS easy-going.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

cross-grained

cr ò ss-gr á ined 形容詞 1 木目のねじれた .2 ｟話 ｠意固地な, ひねくれた .