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気難しい — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cranky adjective Easily irritated; grumpy and bad-tempered.
  • fastidious adj Extremely careful about small details, especially cleanliness and order; hard to please.
  • grumpy adj Easily annoyed and bad-tempered.
  • ornery adj Stubborn, grumpy, and difficult to deal with.

Senses

気難しい is used for these senses in English:

  • cranky Grouchy, grumpy, irritable; easily upset.
  • fastidious Difficult to please; quick to find fault.
  • grumpy Dissatisfied and irritable.
  • ornery (originally, and, chiefly, US, especially, Appalachia, informal) Disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with; cantankerous.

cranky — full definition

  1. adjective Easily irritated; grumpy and bad-tempered.
  2. adjective Not working properly; faulty or unreliable.

fastidious — full definition

  1. adj Extremely careful about small details, especially cleanliness and order; hard to please.
  2. adj (biology) Needing very specific conditions or nutrients to grow, and therefore difficult to culture.

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