All factious synonyms
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F f adjective factious
- conflicting — clashing; contradictory
- warring — a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
- contending — competing; opposed
- estranged — (of a person) no longer close or affectionate to someone; alienated.
- schismatic — Also, schismatical. of, relating to, or of the nature of schism; guilty of schism.
- discordant — being at variance; disagreeing; incongruous: discordant opinions.
- controversial — If you describe something or someone as controversial, you mean that they are the subject of intense public argument, disagreement, or disapproval.
noun factious
- fire-eater — an entertainer who pretends to eat fire.
- spiky — having a spike or spikes.
- litigiousness — of or relating to litigation.
adj factious
- alienated — indifferent, unfriendly, or hostile
- belligerent — A belligerent person is hostile and aggressive.
- contentious — A contentious issue causes a lot of disagreement or arguments.
- contumacious — stubbornly resistant to authority; wilfully obstinate
- disaffected — discontented and disloyal, as toward the government or toward authority.
- disputatious — fond of or given to disputation; argumentative; contentious: disputatious litigants.
- dissident — a person who dissents.
- divisive — forming or expressing division or distribution.
- fighting — fit to fight: a boxer who's no longer in fighting shape.
- hostile — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
- insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- insurgent — a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel.
- litigious — of or relating to litigation.
- malcontent — not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances.
- mutinous — disposed to, engaged in, or involving revolt against authority.
- partisan — a shafted weapon of the 16th and 17th centuries, having as a head a long spear blade with a pair of curved lobes at the base.
- quarrelsome — inclined to quarrel; argumentative; contentious.
- rebellious — defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- rival — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
- sectarian — of or relating to sectaries or sects.
- seditious — of, relating to, or of the nature of sedition.
- turbulent — being in a state of agitation or tumult; disturbed: turbulent feelings or emotions.
- insurrectionary — of, relating to, or of the nature of insurrection.
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.