Quarrelsome synonyms
kwôr'əl-səm, kwŏr'-
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Given to, characterized by, or promoting internal dissension.
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- Given to, characterized by, or promoting internal dissension.
- Produced or characterized by faction
- Producing or tending to produce faction; causing dissension
Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
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- Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
- Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
- Eager or disposed to fight.
Eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome; combative
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- Eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome; combative
- Combative in nature.
Always ready to argue; quarrelsome
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- Always ready to argue; quarrelsome
- Involving or causing contention; controversial:
- Provoking or likely to provoke controversy
Of or characterized by argument:
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- Of or characterized by argument:
- Stating facts and suggesting that particular inferences and conclusions can be drawn from them. Stating facts and suggesting that particular inferences and conclusions can be drawn from them.
- Apt to argue; contentious
Given to carrying on lawsuits
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- Given to carrying on lawsuits
- Tending to engage in lawsuits.
- Inclined to engage in lawsuits.
Of, pertaining to, or engaged in warfare.
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- Of, pertaining to, or engaged in warfare.
- Showing a readiness to fight or quarrel
- Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive.
Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament.
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- Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament.
- Of a quarrelsome or hostile nature; eager to fight or quarrel; warlike
Disposed to violence; ferocious or cruel.
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- Disposed to violence; ferocious or cruel.
- Disposed or eager to fight or engage in hostile opposition; belligerent.
- Fierce; cruel; savage; ferocious
- Wild; uncontrolled
- Difficult to keep in place or in order:
- Difficult or impossible to discipline, control, or rule:
Having or showing strong feelings; full of passion
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- Having or showing strong feelings; full of passion
- Arising from or marked by passion:
- Resulting from, expressing, or tending to arouse strong feeling; ardent; intense; impassioned
Characterized by or displaying physical violence:
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- Characterized by or displaying physical violence:
- Characterized by extreme emotion, especially anger:
- Very forceful:
Charged with emotion; spirited:
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- Charged with emotion; spirited:
- Being in an inflamed, usually painful condition:
- Easily excited or emotionally volatile; tempestuous:
Easily angered; quick-tempered:
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- Easily angered; quick-tempered:
- Quick-tempered; easily made angry
- Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; (of a person) easily excited or angered.
hot-tempered
Having a fiery temper; easily made angry
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- Having a fiery temper; easily made angry
- (Colloquial, usually said of a person, but sometimes of an animal) Become very vocal or even violent when angered or frustrated.
(Physiol.) Capable of responding to the proper stimulus; irritable
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- (Physiol.) Capable of responding to the proper stimulus; irritable
- Capable of responding to stimuli.
- Easily excited.
Of, involving, or like a tempest
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- Of, involving, or like a tempest
- Characterized by violent emotions or actions; tumultuous:
- Violent; turbulent
bickering
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squabbling
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with a chip on one's shoulder
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Made of scraps; consisting of odds and ends
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- Made of scraps; consisting of odds and ends
- Full of fighting spirit.
- (Informal) Fond of fighting, arguing, etc.; aggressive
Having a peevish nature; cranky.
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- Having a peevish nature; cranky.
- Given to troublemaking
- Peevish; irritable; cross
Showing ill humor; annoyed.
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- Showing ill humor; annoyed.
- Involving reciprocal actions, etc.
- Lying or passing crosswise; intersecting:
cross-grained
Alternative form of cross-grained.
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- Alternative form of cross-grained.
- (Of timber) Having an irregular rather than a parallel grain.
- Having a grain that is irregular or that runs across the longitudinal axis
Characterized by or resulting from anger.
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- Characterized by or resulting from anger.
- Prone to outbursts of temper; easily angered.
- Showing or resulting from a quick temper or a fit of anger
Irritable and curt:
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- Irritable and curt:
- Likely to snap or bite, as a dog.
- Cross or irritable, uncivil; sharp-tongued
Indicative of irritation, annoyance, or spite:
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- Indicative of irritation, annoyance, or spite:
- Having a slender waist, like a wasp
- Easily irritated or annoyed; irascible.
Contrary; fractious.
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- Contrary; fractious.
- Showing ill humor or impatience, as a glance or remark
- Hard to please; irritable; fretful; cross
Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish.
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- Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish.
- Contemptuous in speech or behavior.
- Impatient or irritable, esp. over petty things; peevish
Difficult to handle:
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- Difficult to handle:
- Given to or marked by an ill-tempered nature, ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby.
- Note: Cantankerous is generally used to describe an unpleasant elderly person in a slightly pejorative manner. However, the term can be used to people in general, livestock, and machinery as well.
Easily hurt by criticism, insults, etc.; sensitive
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Easily offended; oversensitive; irritable
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- Easily offended; oversensitive; irritable
- Requiring special tact or skill in handling; delicate:
- Highly sensitive to touch. Used of a body part.
Irritable; touchy; peevish
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- Irritable; touchy; peevish
- Irritated, impatient, or exasperated; peevish:
Angered or offended
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- Angered or offended
- Irritated or annoyed; indignant.
- Easily offended; touchy.
pettish
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- Bad-tempered; peevish
- Ill-tempered; peevish.
- Peevish; petulant; cross
Sharp or fiery, as speech or writing
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- Sharp or fiery, as speech or writing
- Sharp and stinging in style or content; vivid or fiery:
- Of, containing, or resembling pepper; sharp or pungent in flavor.
calm (antonym)
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peaceful (antonym)
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conciliatory (antonym)
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agreeable (antonym)
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good-natured (antonym)
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unruffled. See syn. study at belligerent.belligerent (antonym)
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irritable (related)
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Apt to argue; contentious
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- Apt to argue; contentious
- Of or characterized by argument:
- Of or containing argument; controversial
Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
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- Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
- Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
- Eager or disposed to fight.
Of or marked by contention
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- Of or marked by contention
- Provoking or likely to provoke controversy
- Involving or causing contention; controversial:
Of something or someone provoking strife, controversy or discord.
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- Of something or someone provoking strife, controversy or discord.
- Of or provoking controversy or given to sophistical argument and specious reasoning
- Given to or characterized by disputatious, often specious argument.
- Inclined to engage in lawsuits.
- Of, relating to, or characterized by litigation.
- Argumentative or combative.
Of or relating to a controversy, argument, or refutation.
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- Of or relating to a controversy, argument, or refutation.
- Of or involving dispute; controversial
- Argumentative; disputatious
Made of scraps; consisting of odds and ends
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- Made of scraps; consisting of odds and ends
- (Informal) Fond of fighting, arguing, etc.; aggressive
- Quarrelsome; contentious.
Of a quarrelsome or hostile nature; eager to fight or quarrel; warlike
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- Of a quarrelsome or hostile nature; eager to fight or quarrel; warlike
- Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament.
At war; designating or of a state recognized under international law as being engaged in a war
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- At war; designating or of a state recognized under international law as being engaged in a war
- Of, pertaining to, or engaged in warfare.
- Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive.
Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
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- Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
- Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
- Eager or disposed to fight.
Of or marked by contention
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- Of or marked by contention
- Involving or causing contention; controversial:
- Provoking or likely to provoke controversy
Feeling or showing enmity or ill will:
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- Feeling or showing enmity or ill will:
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy:
- Being in opposition; opposed:
Ready and willing to fight; esp., vigorous or aggressive in supporting or promoting a cause
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- Ready and willing to fight; esp., vigorous or aggressive in supporting or promoting a cause
- Fighting or warring.
- Having a combative character; aggressive, especially in the service of a cause:
Eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome; combative
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- Eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome; combative
- Combative in nature.
Made of scraps; consisting of odds and ends
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- Made of scraps; consisting of odds and ends
- Full of fighting spirit.
- (Informal) Fond of fighting, arguing, etc.; aggressive
Disposed to violence; ferocious or cruel.
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- Disposed to violence; ferocious or cruel.
- Fierce; cruel; savage; ferocious
- Disposed or eager to fight or engage in hostile opposition; belligerent.
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- Martial, bellicose or militaristic.
- Fit for, fond of, or ready for war; bellicose; martial
- Belligerent; hostile.
conflict (related)
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attack (related)
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