Thesaurus:quarrelsome
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
Sense: argumentative; contentious; given to quarreling[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- agonistic (rhetoric)
- argumentative
- bangsome
- bellicose
- belligerent
- contentious
- debateful (obsolete)
- disputatious
- factious
- fractious
- fratchety (Britain, dialectal)
- fratchy (Britain)
- litigious
- logomachic
- pettifogging
- quarrelous (US)
- quarrelsome
- rantankerous (US, dialectal, dated)
- squabbly
- strifeful
- unpacific
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Further reading[edit]
- “713. discord” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “901. irascibility” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “quarrelsome” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.