| Main Entry: | combative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aggressive |
Synonyms: |
antagonistic, bellicose, belligerent, cantankerous, contentious, cussed, energetic, fire-eating, gladiatorial, hawkish, militant, ornery*, pugnacious, quarrelsome, ructious, scrappy, strenuous, trigger-happy, truculent, warlike, warring |
Antonyms: |
agreeable, compromising, peaceful, peaceloving |
| Main Entry: | quarrelsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being disagreeable |
Synonyms: |
argumentative, bad-tempered, bellicose, belligerent, brawling, cantankerous, cat-and-dog, choleric, churlish, combative, contentious, crabby, cross, disputatious, dissentious, excitable, fiery, fractious, gladiatorial, hasty, have chip on shoulder, hotheaded, huffy, impassioned, irascible, irritable, litigious, ornery, passionate, peevish, pettish, petulant, pugnacious, querulous, ructious, snappy, tempestuous, thin-skinned, touchy, truculent, turbulent, unruly, violent, war |
Antonyms: |
agreeable, forgiving, friendly, good-natured, happy, patient |
| Main Entry: | warlike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hostile, battling |
Synonyms: |
aggressive, attacking, bellicose, belligerent, bloodthirsty, combative, contending, contentious, contrary, fighting, gladiatorial, hawkish, inimical, martial, militant, militaristic, military, offensive, pugnacious, quarrelsome, ructious, soldierly, truculent, unfriendly, warmongering, warring |
Antonyms: |
harmonizing, peaceful |
| Main Entry: | quarrelsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
Related
Adjectives: |
quarrelsome, angry, bad-tempered, cacochymical, cantankerous, captious, choleric, churlish, contentious, cross, cross as a cat, cross as a crab, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, cross as two sticks, disputatious, dissentious, edgy, exceptious, excitable, fidgety, fiery, fractious, fratchy, fretful, hasty, hot, huffy, ill-tempered, in a bad temper, irascible, irritable, like tinder, like touchwood, moodish, nattlesome, on the fret, overhasty, oxythymous, passionate, peevish, peppery, pettish, petulant, pugnacious, querulous, quick, resentful, resentive, restiff, restive, shrewish, snappish, sudden and quick in quarrel, sulky, susceptible, techy, termagant, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchy, vindictive, virulent, warm, waspish
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