Synonyms of scrappy

scrappy

adjective

1

as in aggressive

feeling or displaying eagerness to fight

she was a scrappy girl despite—or, perhaps, because of—her small size

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

2

as in controversial

given to arguing

a pair of scrappy movie critics who can never agree on anything

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Examples of scrappy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Most American modernists were scrappier, toiling away in studios closer to the ground, far beyond Manhattan’s busiest streets. —Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 12 Sep. 2024

The complaint opened this way: Two decades ago, Google became the darling of Silicon Valley as a scrappy startup with an innovative way to search the emerging internet. —Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2024

On that very first day, the new, scrappy GV team was in a cluster of desks near other Google curiosities, including what would become Google X and projects like Google Glass and Waymo. —Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2024

Big setpieces and cash prizes have become the norm, shifting far away from the small, scrappy videos that defined the early years of YouTube. —Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024