Synonyms for Scrappy | WordToolSet

Synonyms for "scrappy" (173 found)

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Closest matches (35)

aggressive antagonistic argumental argumentative arrested battling bellicose belligerent bloodthirsty bloodybloody mindedbloody-minded brawling brokenbroken offcallow capricious careeningcat-and-dogcat-and-doggish

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catchy chauvinist chauvinistic chopped-off choppy combative contention contentious controversial decousu defective deficient desultory deviative disconnected

Strong matches (52)

discontinued discontinuous discrete disjunctive disputatious eccentric embryonic enemy episodic erratic failing ferocious fierce fighting fitful flickering fluctuatingfull of fightguttering halting

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hawkish herky-jerky heteroclite hostile hypoplastic immature immethodicalin arrearin arrearsin defaultin short supplyinadequate incoherent incomplete inconstant infant inimical intermittent intermitting interrupted irregular jagged jerky jingo jingoish jingoist jingoistic lacking litigious

Adjective(3 words)

feisty gritty improvised

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

5 entries

approachcharacter traitcondition methodology quality

More specific

8 entries

ad hoc methodgritimprovised designpatchwork pluck raggedness shabbiness tenacity

Collocations

6 entries

scrappy appearancescrappy defensescrappy fighterscrappy improvisationscrappy resourcefulnessscrappy writing

Inflections

2 entries

scrappier scrappiest

Derivations

2 entries

scrappily scrappiness

similar

1 entries

aggressive

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Wow, you're really in a bad mood. Don't get scrappy.

Source: tatoeba (2700994)

Google was once small and scrappy.

Source: tatoeba (11496570)

That was a scrappy lecture.

Source: wiktionary

He's a scrappy dog and will charge at you if you taunt him.