different between resentful vs crabbed

English

Etymology

resent +? -ful

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z?ntf?l/

Adjective

resentful (comparative more resentful, superlative most resentful)

1. Inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when wronged.

   Synonyms: unforgiving, spiteful

2. Harboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment.

   Synonym: bitter

Derived terms

• resentfully
• resentfulness

Translations

References

• resentful at OneLook Dictionary Search
• resentful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• resentful in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Middle English crabbed; equivalent to crab +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?æbd/
• Rhymes: -æbd

Adjective

crabbed (comparative more crabbed, superlative most crabbed)

1. Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene i^[1]:

     […] O, she is / Ten times more gentle than her father's crabb'd, / And he's composed of harshness.

2. Cramped, bent.
   • c. 1800 Robert Southey, Winter:

     A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee,

     Old Winter, with a rugged beard as grey

     As the long moss upon the apple-tree; […]

3. (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
4. (aviation, of an aircraft) Pointed at an angle to the runway during approach and landing to compensate for a crosswind.

Derived terms

• crabbedly
• crabbedness

Translations

Verb

crabbed

1. simple past tense and past participle of crab

Middle English

Alternative forms

• crabbid, crabbyd, crabbede

Etymology

From crabbe +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?krabid/, /?krab?d/

Adjective

crabbed

1. immoral, backwards, savage, rapacious
2. crabbed, ill-tempered, vengeful
3. (rare) Moving in reverse.

Derived terms

• crabbednes
• crabbidly

Descendants

• English: crabbed
• Scots: crabbit

References

• “crabbed, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.