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FACTIOUS

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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
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