Quarrelsome Synonyms and Antonyms

kwôrəl-səm, kwŏr-
Inclined to fight
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. bellicose
  2. belligerent
  3. combative
  4. contentious
  5. pugnacious
  6. scrappy
  7. argumentative
  8. truculent
  9. disputatious
  10. litigious
  11. fiery
  12. hostile
  13. militant
  14. unruly
  15. factious
  16. antagonistic
  17. passionate
  18. violent
  19. brawling
  20. impassioned
  21. cantankerous
  22. hotheaded
  23. choleric
  24. hot-tempered
  25. excitable
  26. hasty
  27. tempestuous
  28. bickering
  29. squabbling
  30. irascible
  31. with a chip on one's shoulder
  32. irritable
  33. ornery
  34. warlike
  35. petulant
  36. rancorous
  37. termagant
Antonyms:
  1. calm
  2. peaceful
  3. conciliatory
Given to quarreling; contentious.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. argumentative

Words Related to Quarrelsome

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Quarrelsome Sentence Examples

  • He was quarrelsome and unruly.

  • The new king at Paris was a young boy, whose councils were swayed by a knot of quarrelsome and selfish uncles; the vigour of the attack on England began to slacken.

  • Up to the time of his nomination for the presidency, the biographer of Jackson finds nothing to record but military exploits in which he displayed perseverance, energy and skill of a very high order, and a succession of personal acts in which he showed himself ignorant, violent, perverse, quarrelsome and astonishingly indiscreet.

  • From all accounts he was a man of very disagreeable character, conceited and quarrelsome.

  • None of these was more quarrelsome than Napper Tandy, who was exceedingly conceited, and habitually drunken; his vanity was wounded to find himself of less account than Tone in the councils of the conspirators.

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