Synonyms of quarrelsome

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adjective

1

as in aggressive

feeling or displaying eagerness to fight

a quarrelsome student who was always being sent to the principal's office for starting fights in the halls

Synonyms & Similar Words

• aggressive
• militant
• hostile
• contentious
• irritable
• belligerent
• combative
• warlike
• pugnacious
• assaultive
• confrontational
• bellicose
• feisty
• ugly
• truculent
• disputatious
• argumentative
• acidic
• fierce
• agonistic
• savage
• vicious
• scrappy
• rude
• chippy
• discordant
• gladiatorial
• antagonistic
• on the warpath
• brawly
• irascible
• peevish
• fretful
• fighting
• disagreeable
• querulous
• fractious
• warring
• hot-tempered
• ornery
• petulant
• snappish
• testy
• cross
• choleric
• dyspeptic
• pettish
• grouchy
• surly
• bilious
• grumpy
• ill-tempered
• waspish
• crabby
• bristly
• ill-natured
• touchy
• stroppy
• battling
• huffy
• cranky
• ill-humored
• prickly
• bearish
• snappy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• peaceable
• peaceful
• nonaggressive
• pacific
• amiable
• unwarlike
• pleasant
• friendly
• cordial
• conciliatory
• benevolent
• good-natured
• sociable
• genial
• nonbelligerent
• easygoing
• amicable
• gracious
• affable
• complaisant
• uncontentious
• kindhearted
• quiet
• calm
• ingratiating
• obliging
• uncombative
• unbelligerent
• good-tempered
• mild
• serene
• gentle
• tranquil
• antimilitarist
• benign
• relaxed
• anti-imperialist
• kindly

2

as in contentious

given to arguing

you're so quarrelsome: you can never do anything without a fuss

Synonyms & Similar Words

• contentious
• controversial
• aggressive
• stubborn
• polemic
• irritable
• militant
• argumentative
• disputatious
• polemical
• scrappy
• belligerent
• unreasonable
• warlike
• combative
• pugnacious
• willful
• bellicose
• fighting
• rude
• fractious
• truculent
• feisty
• ornery
• resistant
• surly
• disagreeable
• disobedient
• insubordinate
• obstinate
• contrary
• irascible
• restive
• uncooperative
• peevish
• wayward
• cantankerous
• wilful
• fretful
• recalcitrant
• warring
• querulous
• intractable
• gladiatorial
• headstrong
• captious
• petulant
• refractory
• snappish
• testy
• acidic
• balky
• battling
• choleric
• dyspeptic
• cross
• obdurate
• pettish
• grouchy
• bilious
• mulish
• grumpy
• splenetic
• unbending
• ill-tempered
• waspish
• perverse
• uncompromising
• crabby
• self-willed
• pigheaded
• ill-natured
• touchy
• hardheaded
• froward
• huffy
• unyielding
• cranky
• ill-humored
• self-opinionated
• bearish
• snappy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• amiable
• pleasant
• friendly
• cordial
• benevolent
• cooperative
• good-natured
• sociable
• genial
• gracious
• amicable
• easygoing
• affable
• agreeable
• conciliatory
• ingratiating
• amenable
• complaisant
• good-tempered
• complying
• compliant
• acquiescent
• obedient
• docile
• submissive
• tractable
• peaceable
• peaceful
• obliging
• pacific

quarrelsomeness

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noun

as in aggression

an inclination to fight or quarrel

a theater critic who was more notable for his quarrelsomeness than for his astuteness

Synonyms & Similar Words

• aggression
• assaultiveness
• aggressiveness
• hostility
• disputatiousness
• defiance
• fight
• chip on one's shoulder
• militantness
• militancy
• militance
• combativeness
• pugnacity
• contentiousness
• belligerence
• bellicosity
• belligerency
• scrappiness
• truculence
• feistiness
• irritableness
• hyperaggressiveness
• antagonism
• captiousness
• unfriendliness
• irritability
• pettishness
• imperialism
• militarism
• fierceness
• waspishness
• jingoism
• peevishness
• crossness
• fretfulness
• disagreeableness
• rudeness
• querulousness
• irascibleness
• fractiousness
• biliousness
• crankiness
• acidity
• grumpiness
• petulance
• irascibility
• grouchiness
• testiness
• orneriness
• surliness
• huffiness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• nonaggression
• pacifism
• friendliness
• antimilitarism
• benevolence
• sociability
• cordiality
• gentleness
• geniality
• antiaggression
• pleasantness
• amiability
• graciousness
• affability
• kindliness
• mildness
• anti-imperialism
• complaisance
• amicability
• amenability
• placability