quarrelsome

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
quarrelsome
    adj 1: given to quarreling; "arguing children"; "quarrelsome
           when drinking"
    
from The 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]
    
from 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

    

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