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Quarrelsome synonyms and antonyms

kwôr'əl-səm, kwŏr'-

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peevish
Querulous or discontented.
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truculent
Eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict.
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excitable
Easily excited.
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peaceful (antonym)
Not involving violence or employing force:
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conciliatory (antonym)
Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions
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eristic
Of something or someone provoking strife, controversy or discord.
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factious
Given to or characterized by discordance or insubordination.
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combative
Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
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pugnacious
The definition of pugnacious is eager to fight or disagree.
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contentious
Always ready to argue; quarrelsome
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disputatious
Of or relating to something that is in question as to its value or intent.
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argumentative
Of or containing argument; controversial
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litigious
Quarrelsome
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belligerent
Eager to go to war, warlike.
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bellicose
Showing or having the impulse to be combative.
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unruly
Difficult or impossible to discipline, control, or rule:
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passionate
Showing or expressing strong emotion; ardent:
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violent
Very forceful:
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fiery
The definition of fiery is to a strong personality, something related to heat, or to an impassioned action or speech.
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impassioned
Filled with passion; fervent:
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hotheaded
Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; (of a person) easily excited or angered.
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hot-tempered
Having a fiery temper; easily made angry
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hasty
Acting with too much speed or haste; hurried:
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tempestuous
Of, or resembling a tempest; stormy, tumultuous.
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bickering
Inclined to fight
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squabbling
Inclined to fight
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with a chip on one's shoulder
Inclined to fight
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scrappy
(Informal) Fond of fighting, arguing, etc.; aggressive
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fractious
The definition of fractious is someone who is bad tempered, or someone or something that is difficult to control.
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cross
Involving interchange; reciprocal.
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cross-grained
(Of timber) Having an irregular rather than a parallel grain.
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irascible
Characterized by or resulting from anger.
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snappish
Likely to snap or bite.
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waspish
Bad-tempered; snappish
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churlish
Of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic
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cantankerous
Difficult to handle:
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thin-skinned
(Idiomatic) overly sensitive to criticism; quick to take offence; irritable; touchy
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touchy
Sensitive to touch; easily irritated, as a part of the body
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testy
Irritated, impatient, or exasperated; peevish:
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huffy
Arrogant; haughty.
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peppery
Of, containing, or resembling pepper; sharp or pungent in flavor.
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calm (antonym)
Without wind or motion; still; quiet
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agreeable (antonym)
Pleasing or pleasant
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good-natured (antonym)
Alternative spelling of good-natured.
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unruffled. See syn. study at belligerent.belligerent (antonym)
Bad-tempered
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irritable (related)
In an ill humor; bad-tempered; peevish
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antagonistic
Contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces.
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brawling
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choleric
(--- Archaic) Having choler as the dominant humor in terms of medieval physiology.
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hostile
Of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy:
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militant
Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative. [from 17th c.]
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ornery
(Humorous, southern US) Mischievous, prankish, teasing, disagreeable but in a good way.
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termagant
Shrewish; scolding.
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patient (antonym)
Persevering; constant:
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happy (antonym)
The definition of happy is someone or something that is feeling great pleasure or joy.
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forgiving (antonym)
Inclined to forgive.
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friendly (antonym)
(Number theory) Being or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy.
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peaceable (antonym)
At peace; peaceful
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polemic
Argumentative; disputatious
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polemical
Aggressive in verbal attack; disputatious.
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conflict (related)
Given to arguing
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attack (related)
Designed or used for carrying out a hostile or aggressive attack
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self-willed (related)
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quick-tempered (related)
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domineer (related)
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dissolute (related)
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short-tempered (related)
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conceited (related)
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haughty (related)
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hot-headed (related)
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Quarrelsome Sentence Examples

  • He was quarrelsome and unruly.

  • Its duke, Henry, the brother of Otto I., had died in 955 and had been succeeded by a young son, Henry, whose turbulent career subsequently induced the Bavarian historian Aventinus to describe him as rixosus, or the Quarrelsome.

  • 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.

  • They are a timid, quiet, docile race, and although addicted to drinking not quarrelsome.

  • 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.

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