quarrelsome
adjUK /ˈkwɒɹəlsəm/ · US /ˈkwɔɹəlsəm/
Etymology From quarrel + -some.
1
Argumentative; fond of or prone to quarreling.
- She's too quarrelsome to participate in a civil conversation.
- And let a Man bevvare, hovv he keepeth Company, vvith Cholerick and Quarelſome Perſons; for they vvill engage him into their ovvne Quarels.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Trauaile”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 104:
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- Rampion grown in the cottage garden made the children of the house quarrelsome; breathing deeply into a handful of mint refreshed your senses, but aconite could cause your death.1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 254:
- Synonyms
- agonistic, argumentative, bangsome, bellicose, belligerent, contentious, debateful, discordant, disputatious, factious, fractious, fratchety, fratchy, litigious, logomachic, pettifogging, quarrelous, quarrelsome, rantankerous, squabbly, strifeful, unpacific
- Antonyms
- calm, mediational, nonargumentative, peaceable, unargumentative, unquarrelsome
- Derived terms
- quarrelsomely, quarrelsomeness, unquarrelsome
- Hypernyms
- enthusiastic, eristic, passionate
- Hyponyms
- perverse