quarrelsome

3 definitions found

quarrelsome - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Quarrelsome \Quar"rel*some\, a.
     Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention;
     easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Pugnacious; irritable; irascible; brawling; choleric;
          fiery; petulant.
          [1913 Webster] -- Quar"rel*some*ly, adv. --
          Quar"rel*some*ness, n.
          [1913 Webster]

quarrelsome - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  quarrelsome
      adj 1: given to quarreling; "arguing children"; "quarrelsome
             when drinking"

quarrelsome - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  118 Moby Thesaurus words for "quarrelsome":
     acrid, adverse, aggressive, antagonistic, antipathetic, argumental,
     argumentative, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, bitter,
     bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brawling, cankered,
     cat-and-dog, cat-and-doggish, caustic, chauvinist, chauvinistic,
     choleric, clashing, colliding, combative, conflicting, contending,
     contentious, contestant, contesting, contrary, controversial,
     counter, crabbed, cranky, cross, despiteful, dialectic,
     disagreeable, disputant, disputatious, dissentient, dissentious,
     dissident, divisive, dyspeptic, enemy, eristic, factional,
     factious, ferocious, fierce, fighting, fractious, full of fight,
     full of hate, grouchy, hateful, hawkish, hostile, ill-humored,
     inimical, irascible, irritable, jingo, jingoish, jingoist,
     jingoistic, litigious, logomachic, malevolent, malicious,
     malignant, martial, militant, militaristic, military, offensive,
     partisan, peevish, petulant, pilpulistic, polarizing, polemic,
     pro and con, pugnacious, querulous, rancorous, repugnant,
     saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy,
     set against, shrewish, soldierlike, soldierly, sore, spiteful,
     squabbling, striving, struggling, testy, trigger-happy, truculent,
     unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, venomous, virulent,
     vitriolic, warlike, warmongering, warring, wrangling