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Quarrelsome definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

QUAR'RELSOME, a. Apt to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; inclined to petty fighting; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric; petulant.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: given to quarreling; "arguing children"; "quarrelsome when drinking"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1596 apt or disposed to quarrel in an often petty manner ; contentious Synonyms: see belligerent • quarrelsomely adverb • quarrelsomeness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. given to or characterized by quarrelling. Derivatives: quarrelsomely adv. quarrelsomeness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Quarrelsome Quar"rel*some, a. Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric. Syn: Pugnacious; irritable; irascible; brawling; choleric; fiery; petulant. -- Quar"rel*some*ly, adv. -- Quar"rel*some*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A quarrelsome person often gets involved in arguments. Benedict had been a wild boy and a quarrelsome young man. = argumentative ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Irascible, choleric, irritable, petulant, cross, contentious, disputatious.

Moby Thesaurus

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