Quarrelsome
['kwɒr(ə)ls(ə)m] or ['kwɔrəlsəm]
Definition
(adj.) given to quarreling; 'arguing children'; 'quarrelsome when drinking' .
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Definition
(a.) Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Irascible, choleric, irritable, petulant, cross, contentious, disputatious, litigious.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Choleric, irascible, petulant, litigious, pugnacious, brawling, fiery,hot-tempered, contentious, irritable
ANT:Peaceable, amenable, genial, unquarrelsome, inoffensive, mild, meek,conciliatory, bland, suave
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Examples
- I wish you would not be so quarrelsome. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She could not be complying, she dreaded being quarrelsome; her heroism reached only to silence. Jane Austen. Emma.
- And there is certainly this merit in people of station, that they are not nearly so quarrelsome among each other as people of no station at all. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I am of a quarrelsome temper. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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