Dictionary Definition
quarrelsome adj : given to quarreling; "arguing
children"; "quarrelsome when drinking"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Argumentative;
belligerent;
contentious; given
to quarreling.
- She's too quarrelsome to participate in a civil conversation.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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