Thesaurus:quarrelsome

Thesaurus

quarrelsome

English

Adjective

Sense: argumentative; contentious; given to quarreling

Synonyms

• 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

Antonyms

• calm    [⇒ thesaurus]
• mediational
• nonargumentative
• peaceable
• unargumentative
• unquarrelsome

Hyponyms

• litigious
• perverse    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• enthusiastic    [⇒ thesaurus]
• eristic
• passionate

See also

• combative    [⇒ thesaurus]
• dispute    [⇒ thesaurus]
• irritable    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “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.