Synonyms for Contentious:

• adj.

  •aggressive (adjective)
  • combative,
  • confrontational,
  • hawkish,
  • offensive.
  •all (adjective)
  • contentious.
  •arguable (adjective)
  • un-sure,
  • moot,
  • un sure.
  •argumentative (adjective)
  • fire eating,
  • spiky,
  • spikiest,
  • salty,
  • having a chip on one's shoulder,
  • spikier,
  • fire-eating,
  • opinionated,
  • disputatious.
  •at issue (adjective)
  • controversial.
  •belligerent (adjective)
  • have a bone pick,
  • hot tempered,
  • have chip on shoulder,
  • have bone pick,
  • on outs,
  • have it for,
  • have chip shoulder,
  • more battling,
  • have bone to pick,
  • flippest,
  • most battling,
  • flip,
  • have in for.
  •combative (adjective)
  • more ructious,
  • strenuous,
  • most ructious,
  • triggerhappy,
  • most trigger happy,
  • most gladiatorial,
  • most triggerhappy,
  • most cussed,
  • more triggerhappy,
  • more gladiatorial,
  • more trigger happy,
  • more trigger-happy,
  • most trigger-happy,
  • more cussed,
  • trigger-happy.
  •conflicting (adjective)
  • antipathetic,
  • brawling,
  • antagonistic,
  • clamoring,
  • differing,
  • disharmonious,
  • clashing,
  • cacophonous,
  • dissident,
  • discordant,
  • feuding,
  • conflicting,
  • tense,
  • colliding,
  • raucous,
  • bickering,
  • loath,
  • Squabbling,
  • dissonant,
  • harsh,
  • rowing,
  • rioting,
  • warring,
  • dissenting.
  •contentious (adjective)
  • protesting,
  • contrary,
  • argumentive,
  • oppositional,
  • resistant.
  •controversial (adjective)
  • more controvertible,
  • most controvertible,
  • more doubtable,
  • more debateable,
  • most doubtable,
  • most contestable,
  • most contended,
  • most debateable,
  • more disputed,
  • more contestable,
  • most disputed,
  • dubitable,
  • more contended.
  •disagreeable (adjective)
  • whiniest,
  • whiny,
  • pettish,
  • unlikable,
  • whinier.
  •discordant (adjective)
  • inharmonious,
  • fricative,
  • discord,
  • unmusical,
  • unharmonious,
  • unmelodious,
  • jarring,
  • tuneless.
  •disputatious (adjective)
  • more caviling,
  • dissentious,
  • most caviling,
  • most dissentious,
  • more dissentious.
  •eristic (adjective)
  • more eristical,
  • most eristical.
  •factious (adjective)
  • tumultous tumultuous,
  • most insurrectionary,
  • more contending,
  • more estranged,
  • tumultoustumultuous,
  • in subordinate,
  • more troublemaking,
  • tumultous-tumultuous,
  • in-subordinate,
  • most contending,
  • more insurrectionary,
  • most troublemaking,
  • insurgent,
  • dis affected,
  • most estranged,
  • dis-affected.
  •fighting (adjective)
  • more wrestling,
  • up arms,
  • fencing,
  • re-solute,
  • most sparring,
  • more disputative,
  • more tilting,
  • more warmongering,
  • most jousting,
  • dis-putative,
  • most fencing,
  • more sparring,
  • most warmongering,
  • more jingoistic,
  • most brawling,
  • more fencing,
  • un beatable,
  • most skirmishing,
  • un-beatable,
  • more brawling,
  • dis putative,
  • more boxing,
  • more jousting,
  • most wrestling,
  • most disputative,
  • re solute,
  • most boxing,
  • most jingoistic,
  • ready fight,
  • more skirmishing,
  • most tilting.
  •hostile (adjective)
  • more anti,
  • in-hospitable,
  • most ill disposed,
  • most oppugnant,
  • illdisposed,
  • un welcoming,
  • unpropitious,
  • more ill-disposed,
  • un-favorable,
  • more ill disposed,
  • more unwelcoming,
  • un kindest,
  • un favorable,
  • more illdisposed,
  • un kinder,
  • un-kindest,
  • more disapproving,
  • dis approving,
  • ill disposed,
  • un sympathetic,
  • un propitious,
  • un sociable,
  • most disapproving,
  • un-propitious,
  • un-kind,
  • in hospitable,
  • more oppugnant,
  • un kind,
  • most opposite,
  • un-sociable,
  • most anti,
  • un-welcoming,
  • most unwelcoming,
  • un-kinder,
  • most illdisposed,
  • most ill-disposed,
  • dis-approving.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • ill-humored,
  • oversensitive,
  • Fretting,
  • huffy,
  • easily offended,
  • bearish,
  • out of humor,
  • grumbling,
  • irritable.
  •militant (adjective)
  • more combating,
  • self-assertive,
  • most assertory,
  • self assertive,
  • selfassertive,
  • most combating,
  • more assertory.
  •pugnacious (adjective)
  • itching to fight.
  •truculent (adjective)
  • in-humane,
  • co wing,
  • most browbeating,
  • most vituperous,
  • most cowing,
  • more vituperous,
  • most terrorizing,
  • more terrorizing,
  • more invective,
  • in-human,
  • more browbeating,
  • more cowing,
  • most invective,
  • in human,
  • co-wing.

• n.

  •
  • embarrassing,
  • adverse,
  • bad.
  •
  • volatile.
  •
  • conflict,
  • polemic.
  •
  • attack.
  •
  • attitude.
  •argumentative (noun)
  • argumentative.
  •battleful (noun)
  • battleful.
  •bellicose (noun)
  • bellicose.
  •litigiousness (noun)
  • factiou,
  • combatives,
  • pugnaciou,
  • touchies,
  • quarrelsomes,
  • opinionateds,
  • spikies,
  • litigiou,
  • fireeatings,
  • disputatiou,
  • fire eatings,
  • fire-eatings,
  • salties,
  • controversials,
  • contentiou.
  •quarrelsome (noun)
  • study at belligerent.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • murphy's law,
  • snippy,
  • amiss,
  • touchy,
  • punitive,
  • difficult,
  • intrusive,
  • invidious,
  • problematic,
  • cantankerous,
  • polemical,
  • fraught,
  • self-defeating,
  • divisive,
  • offending,
  • disruptive,
  • vexed,
  • provocative,
  • Eristic,
  • devilish,
  • burdensome,
  • costly,
  • expensive,
  • shrewish,
  • ornery,
  • tendentious,
  • obstructive,
  • problem,
  • troublesome,
  • fractious,
  • schismatic.
  •
  • corrosive,
  • inflammatory,
  • mischievous,
  • contrarian,
  • undesirable,
  • prickly,
  • rogue,
  • awkward,
  • incendiary.
  •
  • crippling.
  •competing
  • competitive.
  •in opposition
  • maverick.
  •Other relevant words:
  • fierce,
  • hypercritical,
  • supersensitive,
  • crabby,
  • dialectical,
  • jingo,
  • intricate,
  • fretful,
  • carping,
  • unpleasant,
  • termagant,
  • disputable,
  • dissentient,
  • ugly,
  • Palestrical,
  • appellant,
  • ferocious,
  • cranky,
  • ill-tempered,
  • peppery,
  • Brawly,
  • irritating,
  • irascible,
  • thorny,
  • agonistic,
  • hotheaded,
  • contention,
  • highly strung,
  • ill-humoured,
  • impatient,
  • bloody-minded,
  • edgy,
  • literal,
  • soldierly,
  • obstreperous,
  • nice,
  • soldierlike,
  • contending,
  • litigant,
  • militaristic,
  • radical,
  • grouchy,
  • hypersensitive,
  • violent,
  • peevish,
  • unfriendly,
  • complicated,
  • cross,
  • querulous,
  • chauvinist,
  • embattled,
  • choleric,
  • rebellious,
  • aberrant,
  • seditious,
  • scathing,
  • hair-splitting,
  • pettifogging,
  • gruff,
  • nettlesome,
  • debatable,
  • surly,
  • apostate,
  • temperamental,
  • hot-button,
  • hard,
  • non-compliant,
  • disputed,
  • bad-tempered,
  • questionable,
  • exasperating,
  • inimical,
  • Exceptious,
  • niggling,
  • and Irish cranky,
  • short-tempered,
  • faultfinding,
  • nonconformist,
  • independent,
  • critical,
  • in opposition,
  • at war with,
  • party,
  • stroppy,
  • huffish,
  • discourteous,
  • strict,
  • acrimonious,
  • armed cap-a-pie,
  • nonconforming,
  • petulant,
  • ticklish,
  • quick-tempered,
  • enemy,
  • Moodish,
  • fussy,
  • on edge,
  • unpeaceable,
  • defendant,
  • sanguinary,
  • Restiff,
  • Unpacified,
  • hot-tempered,
  • knotty,
  • bloodthirsty,
  • nasty,
  • annoying,
  • testy,
  • ajar,
  • cross-grained,
  • bristling with arms,
  • chauvinistic,
  • Sword in hand,
  • virago,
  • Palestric,
  • thin-skinned,
  • malicious,
  • self-styled,
  • heterodox,
  • attacking,
  • up in arms,
  • subtle,
  • jingoist,
  • armed,
  • sullen,
  • dialectic,
  • Battled,
  • plaintiff,
  • legalistic,
  • bilious,
  • crabbed,
  • Aggravative,
  • nit-picking,
  • snappish,
  • complex,
  • crusty,
  • Fault-finding,
  • perverse,
  • Snarling,
  • grumpy,
  • saber rattling,
  • Battling,
  • jingoish,
  • unreconciled,
  • high-strung,
  • hot,
  • fine,
  • hasty,
  • pugilistic,
  • mutinous,
  • waspish,
  • disputant,
  • Chippy,
  • unpacific,
  • in battle array,
  • churlish,
  • objectionable,
  • tetchy,
  • splenetic,
  • Cavilling,
  • barbarous,
  • martial,
  • rude,
  • full of fight,
  • feral,
  • disagreeing,
  • fiery,
  • captious,
  • refractory,
  • virulent,
  • doubtful,
  • sanguineous,
  • narrow,
  • rival,
  • picky,
  • pro and con,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • censorious,
  • passionate,
  • notorious,
  • crotchety,
  • savage,
  • threatening,
  • dyspeptic,
  • aggravating,
  • at odds,
  • currish,
  • bloody,
  • quibbling,
  • unpeaceful,
  • sensitive,
  • dispute,
  • Argumental,
  • jesuitical,
  • shrew,
  • military,
  • in the field.

Paraphrases for Contentious:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    controversial, disputed, disputable.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    dubious, problematic, Conflictive, difficult, controversy, Impugned, delicate, troubled, tricky, polemic, ambiguous, barbed, conflict-ridden, intractable, argumentative, moot, troubling, doubtful, challenging, complicated, spiny, tough, outstanding, inconsistent.
  • Proper noun, singular
    complaints, actions, cases.
  • Noun, plural
    disagreements, Ones, claims, cases.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    contested, litigious, questionable, conflictual, divisive, debatable, confrontational, polemical, conflicting, thorny, contestable, adversarial, objectionable, uncontroversial, contradictory, sensitive, sticking, arguable.

Antonyms for Contentious:

• adj.

  • quarrelsome
    agreeable.
  • Other antonyms:
    gentle, amenable, good-tempered, amicable, docile, benign, tranquil, unwarlike, affable, serene, conciliatory, nonbelligerent, friendly, undisputed, acquiescent, unargumentative, complaisant, obliging, complying, pacific, noncontroversial, benevolent, undeniable, uncontested, gracious, mild, irrefutable, genial, quiet, calm, compliant, pleasant, kindhearted, tractable, ingratiating, incontrovertible, submissive, easygoing, peaceful, kindly, relaxed, indisputable, amiable, indubitable, unquestionable, cordial, safe, sociable, good-natured, incontestable, obedient, cooperative, nonaggressive.

Homophones for Contentious:

• contents, Cosimo De Medici.