All quarrelsome synonyms
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Q q adjective quarrelsome
- argumentative β Someone who is argumentative is always ready to disagree or start quarrelling with other people.
- cantankerous β Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- difficult β not easily or readily done; requiring much labor, skill, or planning to be performed successfully; hard: a difficult job.
- irritable β easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
- confrontational β If you describe the way that someone behaves as confrontational, you are showing your disapproval of the fact that they are aggressive and likely to cause an argument or dispute.
- querulous β full of complaints; complaining.
- grouchy β sullenly discontented; sulky; morose; ill-tempered.
- hot-tempered β easily angered; short-tempered.
- belligerent β A belligerent person is hostile and aggressive.
- combative β A person who is combative is aggressive and eager to fight or argue.
- contentious β A contentious issue causes a lot of disagreement or arguments.
- fractious β refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- litigious β of or relating to litigation.
- tempestuous β stormy, tumultuous
- turbulent β being in a state of agitation or tumult; disturbed: turbulent feelings or emotions.
- unruly β not submissive or conforming to rule; ungovernable; turbulent; intractable; refractory; lawless: an unruly class; an unruly wilderness.
- bad-tempered β Someone who is bad-tempered is not very cheerful and gets angry easily.
- bellicose β You use bellicose to refer to aggressive actions or behaviour that are likely to start an argument or a fight.
- brawling β a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
- cat-and-dog β continuously or unceasingly vicious and destructive: cat-and-dog competition.
- choleric β A choleric person gets angry very easily. You can also use choleric to describe a person who is very angry.
- churlish β Someone who is churlish is unfriendly, bad-tempered, or impolite.
- crabby β Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
- cross β If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
- disputatious β fond of or given to disputation; argumentative; contentious: disputatious litigants.
- dissentious β contentious; quarrelsome.
- excitable β Responding rather too readily to something new or stimulating; too easily excited.
- fiery β consisting of, attended with, characterized by, or containing fire: a volcano's fiery discharge.
- gladiatorial β of or relating to gladiators or to their combats.
- hasty β moving or acting with haste; speedy; quick; hurried.
- hotheaded β hot or fiery in spirit or temper; impetuous; rash: Hotheaded people shouldn't drive cars.
- huffy β easily offended; touchy.
- impassioned β filled with intense feeling or passion; passionate; ardent.
- irascible β easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- ornery β ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin.
- passionate β having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
- peevish β cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
- pugnacious β inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- snappy β Snappy Video Snapshot
- thin-skinned β having a thin skin.
- touchy β apt to take offense on slight provocation; irritable: He is very touchy when he's sick.
- truculent β fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
- violent β acting with or characterized by uncontrolled, strong, rough force: a violent earthquake.
- war β a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
noun quarrelsome
- fire-eater β an entertainer who pretends to eat fire.
- spiky β having a spike or spikes.
- litigiousness β of or relating to litigation.