| Main Entry: | factious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conflicting, warring |
Synonyms: |
alienated, belligerent, contending, contentious, contumacious, disaffected, disputatious, dissident, divisive, estranged, fighting, hostile, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, litigious, malcontent, mutinous, partisan, quarrelsome, rebellious, refractory, rival, sectarian, seditious, troublemaking, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent |
| Notes: | factious means addicted to forming parties and raise dissensions in opposition to government or the common good, while fractious means tending to cause trouble or unruly or irritable |
Antonyms: |
agreeing, cooperating, cooperative, peaceful, united |
| Main Entry: | argumentative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wanting to quarrel |
Synonyms: |
belligerent, combative, contentious, contrary, controversial, disputatious, factious, fire-eating, having a chip on one's shoulder, litigious, opinionated, pugnacious, quarrelsome, salty, scrappy, spiky, touchy |
Antonyms: |
agreeable, complaisant, friendly |
| Main Entry: | contentious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quarrelsome |
Synonyms: |
antagonistic, argumentative, belligerent, combative, disagreeable, factious, perverse, petulant, querulous, testy |
| Main Entry: | contumacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | headstrong, obstinate |
Synonyms: |
alienated, contrary, disaffected, estranged, factious, froward, haughty, inflexible, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, intransigent, irreconcilable, mutinous, obdurate, perverse, pig-headed, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, seditious, stubborn, unyielding |
Antonyms: |
following, obedient, subordinate, tractable, willing |
| Main Entry: | divergent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | differing |
Synonyms: |
aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, antithetical, atypical, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, deviating, different, disagreeing, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distant, diverging, diverse, factional, factious, irregular, off-key, opposite, poles apart, separate, unalike, unequal, unlike, unnatural, unsimilar, untypical, variant, various |
Antonyms: |
agreeing, convergent, similar |
| Main Entry: | incompatible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic, contradictory |
Synonyms: |
adverse, antipathetic, antipodal, antithetical, clashing, conflicting, contrary, counter, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, disparate, factious, inadmissible, inappropriate, incoherent, inconformable, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, irreconcilable, jarring, marching to a different drummer, mismatched, night and day, offbeat, opposed, opposite, poles apart, unadapted, uncongenial, unsuitable, unsuited, warring, whale of difference |
Antonyms: |
compatible, consonant, harmonious, loving, suited, well-matched |
| Main Entry: | insubordinate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rebellious |
Synonyms: |
contrary, contumacious, defiant, disaffected, disobedient, disorderly, dissentious, factious, fractious, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, naughty, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, riotous, seditious, treacherous, turbulent, uncompliant, uncomplying, undisciplined, ungovernable, unruly |
Antonyms: |
behaved, compliant, obedient |
| Main Entry: | insurgent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rebellious |
Synonyms: |
anarchical, contumacious, disobedient, factious, insubordinate, insurrectionary, mutinous, revolting, revolutionary, riotous, seditious |
Antonyms: |
obedient, subordinate |
| Main Entry: | mutinous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rebellious |
Synonyms: |
anarchistic, contumacious, defiant, disloyal, disobedient, disorderly, dissident, factious, iconoclastic, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, radical, rebel, revolutionary, rioting, riotous, subversive, traitorous, treasonable, ungovernable, unmanageable |
| Main Entry: | rebellious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disobedient, unmanageable |
Synonyms: |
alienated, anarchistic, attacking, bellicose, contumacious, defiant, difficult, disaffected, disloyal, disobedient, disorderly, dissident, factious, fractious, iconoclastic, incorrigible, individualistic, insurgent, insurrectionary, intractable, mutinous, obstinate, pugnacious, quarrelsome, radical, rebel, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, restless, revolutionary, rioting, riotous, sabotaging, seditious, threatening, treasonable, turbulent, ungovernable, unruly, warring |
Antonyms: |
compliant, governable, manageable, obedient |