quarrelsome
quar·rel·some (kwôr′əl səm, kwär′-)
adjective
inclined or ready to quarrel
quarrelsome
modif.
Inclined to fight
factious, combative, pugnacious, contentious, disputatious, argumentative, litigious, belligerent, bellicose, truculent, unruly, passionate, violent, fiery, impassioned, hotheaded, hot-tempered, excitable, hasty, tempestuous, bickering, squabbling, with a chip on one's shoulder*, scrappy*. Antonyms
calm*, peaceful, conciliatory. Bad-tempered
fractious, cross, cross-grained, irascible, snappish, waspish, peevish, petulant, churlish, cantankerous, thin-skinned, touchy, testy, huffy, pettish, peppery; see also irritable.Antonyms
agreeable*, good-natured, unruffled. See syn. study at belligerent.belligerent.
Modifies a noun
- man: We are also told that quarrelsome man is most hated in Allah's sight, Sahih Bukhari 6.48.
- corn-factor: As he is giving alms to an old woman, he bumps into a quarrelsome corn-factor whose pocket-book spills onto the street.
- nature: Baldwin, from his boyhood up, had been of a vindictive, malignant, quarrelsome nature.
- woman: Proverbs warns against the noisy woman, the quarrelsome woman, the rebellious woman, the foolish woman.
- couple: The house with its contents was burned to the ground, but what became of the quarrelsome couple was not reported.
- lot: We may be a quarrelsome lot, but on the whole we fight our battles in the decent obscurity of learned journals.
Modifying Another Word
Browse dictionary entries near quarrelsome
- quarreling
- quarrel
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- quarantined
- quarantine
- quar
- quaquaversal
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- quarrier
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- quart
- quartan
- quarte
- quarter
- Quarter Common Intermediate Format
- quarter crack
- quarter day
- quarter grain
