気難しい — meaning in English
kimuzukashii
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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
- adjective Easily irritated; grumpy and bad-tempered.
- adjective Not working properly; faulty or unreliable.
fastidious — full definition
- adj Extremely careful about small details, especially cleanliness and order; hard to please.
- adj (biology) Needing very specific conditions or nutrients to grow, and therefore difficult to culture.