Quarrelsomeness — Meaning, Definition & Synonyms

Related Entry: Quarrelsome (adjective)

Quarrelsome is a different word from Quarrelsomeness. The synonyms below are for quarrelsome, not for quarrelsomeness.

1. feeling or displaying eagerness to fight

   "a quarrelsome student who was always being sent to the principal's office for starting fights in the halls"

   similar: aggressive, agonistic, argumentative, assaultive, bellicose, belligerent, brawly, chippy, combative, confrontational, contentious, discordant, disputatious, feisty, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, scrappy, truculent, warlike, on the warpath
   related: antagonistic, fierce, hostile, hot-tempered, acidic, bearish, bilious, bristly, choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, disagreeable, dyspeptic, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, rude, snappish, snappy, stroppy (British), surly, testy, touchy, ugly, waspish, savage, vicious, battling, fighting, warring
   opposite: nonaggressive, nonbelligerent, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, unbelligerent, uncombative, uncontentious
   near: anti-imperialist, antimilitarist, unwarlike, affable, amiable, amicable, benevolent, complaisant, conciliatory, cordial, easygoing, friendly, genial, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, ingratiating, kindhearted, obliging, pleasant, sociable, calm, quiet, relaxed, serene, tranquil, benign, gentle, kindly, mild

2. given to arguing

   "you're so quarrelsome: you can never do anything without a fuss"

   similar: argumentative, contentious, controversial, disputatious, polemical, scrappy
   related: aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, combative, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, truculent, warlike, feisty, fractious, surly, balky, contrary, ornery, perverse, restive, wayward, disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, hardheaded, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, pigheaded, resistant, self-opinionated, self-willed, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, uncooperative, unreasonable, unyielding, willful, acidic, bearish, bilious, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, disagreeable, dyspeptic, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, peevish, pettish, petulant, querulous, rude, snappish, snappy, splenetic, testy, touchy, waspish, battling, fighting, warring
   near: affable, amiable, amicable, benevolent, cordial, easygoing, friendly, genial, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, ingratiating, pleasant, sociable, acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, complaisant, compliant, complying, conciliatory, cooperative, obliging, docile, obedient, submissive, tractable, pacific, peaceable, peaceful