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Contentious

//kənˈtɛn.ʃəs//

Synonyms for "contentious" (88 found)

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Informal (8)

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, slang(1 words)

Adj, slang(3 words)

scrappy touchy bloody-minded

Adj, adv, noun, slang(1 words)

Adj, verb, slang(1 words)

General use (80)

Adj, noun(17 words)

offensive hostile provocative militant belligerent aggressive dissident military sanguinary polemic controversial dialectic chauvinist polemical jingoist eristic aggravative

Adj, noun, verb(5 words)

perverse fighting annoying battling saber-rattling

Adj, name(1 words)

Adjective(36 words)

cranky antagonistic ferocious inimical truculent quarrelsome bloodthirsty combative acrimonious sanguineous testy pugnacious bellicose warlike chauvinistic disputatious unpeaceful trigger happy trigger-happy factious

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litigious argumentative hawkish jingoistic soldierlike militaristic ill-humored dialectical legalistic unpeaceable jingoish unpacific argumental logomachic pilpulistic exasperative

Adj, verb(3 words)

passionate irritating exasperating

Noun(2 words)

contention jingo

Adj, adv, noun(1 words)

Noun, verb(3 words)

enemy warmongering fault-finding

Adj, name, noun(1 words)

Adjective(4 words)

combative disputatious litigious disputative

Adj, name, noun, verb(1 words)

bloody minded full of fight cat-and-doggish cat-and-dog

Adj, adv(1 words)

Verb(1 words)

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