What is another word for contentious?
1340 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ kəntˈɛnʃəs], [ kəntˈɛnʃəs], [ k_ə_n_t_ˈɛ_n_ʃ_ə_s]
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Similar words for contentious:
- aggressive (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- arguable (adjective)
- argumentative (adjective)
- at issue (adjective)
- belligerent (adjective)
- combative (adjective)
- conflicting (adjective)
- contentious (adjective)
- controversial (adjective)
- disagreeable (adjective)
- discordant (adjective)
- disputatious (adjective)
- eristic (adjective)
- factious (adjective)
- fighting (adjective)
- hostile (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- militant (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pugnacious (adjective)
- truculent (adjective)
- argumentative (noun)
- battleful (noun)
- bellicose (noun)
- litigiousness (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- quarrelsome (noun)
- other synonyms
- competing
- in opposition
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Contentious:
adj.
• aggressive (adjective) • all (adjective) • arguable (adjective) • argumentative (adjective)- fire eating,
- spiky,
- spikiest,
- salty,
- having a chip on one's shoulder,
- spikier,
- fire-eating,
- opinionated,
- disputatious.
- 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.
- 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.
- antipathetic,
- brawling,
- antagonistic,
- clamoring,
- differing,
- disharmonious,
- clashing,
- cacophonous,
- dissident,
- discordant,
- feuding,
- conflicting,
- tense,
- colliding,
- raucous,
- bickering,
- loath,
- Squabbling,
- dissonant,
- harsh,
- rowing,
- rioting,
- warring,
- dissenting.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ill-humored,
- oversensitive,
- Fretting,
- huffy,
- easily offended,
- bearish,
- out of humor,
- grumbling,
- irritable.
- more combating,
- self-assertive,
- most assertory,
- self assertive,
- selfassertive,
- most combating,
- more assertory.
- debateable,
- hottempered,
- fighting,
- under arms,
- contestable,
- ready to fight,
- Assertory,
- cat-and-dog,
- disagreeable,
- resentful,
- flipper,
- jingoistic,
- Sub Judice,
- on the outs,
- Eristical,
- militant,
- at loggerheads,
- warrer,
- jousting,
- vituperous,
- have for,
- warlike,
- Doubtable,
- litigious,
- open to question,
- in dispute,
- quarrelsome,
- inhumane,
- scrappy,
- Controvertible,
- have it in for,
- pugnacious,
- warmongering,
- open to discussion,
- aggressive,
- gladiatorial,
- hostile,
- truculent,
- unwelcoming,
- belligerent,
- disputative,
- in arms,
- ill-disposed,
- arguable,
- anti,
- Oppugnant,
- have a bone to pick,
- open discussion,
- troublemaking,
- under discussion,
- factious,
- ructious.
n.
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- embarrassing,
- adverse,
- bad.
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- volatile.
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- attack.
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- attitude.
Other synonyms:
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- 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.
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- corrosive,
- inflammatory,
- mischievous,
- contrarian,
- undesirable,
- prickly,
- rogue,
- awkward,
- incendiary.
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- crippling.
- antipathetical,
- war machine,
- indisposed,
- coarse,
- ill-chosen,
- all right,
- dainty,
- barbarian,
- extremist,
- finicky,
- raging,
- crank,
- torrid,
- castled,
- controversy,
- offence,
- onslaught,
- itchy,
- flaming,
- cast away,
- interchange,
- erosive,
- transversal,
- insidious,
- patrioteer,
- rabble-rousing,
- haywire,
- surd,
- infamous,
- engagement,
- knave,
- track,
- explosive,
- minatory,
- logical thinking,
- wretched,
- assertive,
- annoyed,
- tumultuous,
- antsy,
- crucify,
- stubborn,
- base,
- genuine,
- exacting,
- badness,
- averse,
- crustlike,
- nauseous,
- dearly-won,
- impudent,
- mutter,
- precipitous,
- area,
- glum,
- jumpy,
- sulky,
- stadium,
- discard,
- posture,
- atrocious,
- peg down,
- arsonist,
- spiritualist,
- nonindulgent,
- raring,
- jactitate,
- unsavoury,
- ill-mannered,
- dissenter,
- stern,
- spicy,
- contract,
- talk terms,
- techy,
- scotch,
- blooming,
- trouble,
- assuage,
- thrash,
- chuck out,
- underbred,
- inept,
- counter,
- pilot,
- risky,
- continuant,
- ultra,
- imperfectly,
- attempt,
- excitable,
- challenger,
- fiddling,
- domain,
- pricy,
- quarrel,
- utter,
- coordination compound,
- fin,
- basal,
- cut across,
- flak,
- atrabilious,
- turn over,
- murmur,
- scrapper,
- contravention,
- hindering,
- free-lance,
- sophistication,
- flick,
- discordance,
- pestering,
- sensible,
- deviate,
- theme,
- maddening,
- round,
- cover,
- struggle,
- renegade,
- gory,
- crusted,
- row,
- barbaric,
- political party,
- instigative,
- petty,
- insurrectionist,
- problematical,
- foeman,
- throw,
- private-enterprise,
- somersaulting,
- slash,
- briery,
- whiney,
- recusant,
- elusive,
- exacerbating,
- ill-bred,
- strife,
- bilk,
- fast-growing,
- lowbred,
- strong,
- lilliputian,
- horrible,
- riffle,
- acid,
- arduous,
- conveyable,
- jesuitic,
- high-risk,
- transferable,
- free radical,
- baffle,
- job,
- irritative,
- hundred-percenter,
- involved,
- debate,
- overhasty,
- dissension,
- hoarse,
- mouth,
- yokelish,
- foe,
- hard-boiled,
- autonomous,
- gracious,
- heretical,
- onrush,
- nationalistic,
- tortuous,
- onerous,
- awful,
- talk,
- root word,
- defective,
- unmanageable,
- bristly,
- abrasive,
- group,
- firebug,
- bad-mannered,
- fuss,
- delicately,
- hybridize,
- brainish,
- badly,
- snipe,
- prankish,
- pricey,
- placate,
- rumbling,
- unmelodic,
- cast out,
- gentle,
- butcherly,
- contradictory,
- incapacitating,
- squeamish,
- complainant,
- ill-famed,
- deliberate,
- troubled,
- bumptious,
- blast,
- fucking,
- grueling,
- intersect,
- depraved,
- okay,
- foul,
- peaky,
- get across,
- malcontent,
- igneous,
- competitory,
- unsound,
- medium,
- pesky,
- litigator,
- pestiferous,
- violative,
- comparability,
- scalawag,
- infuriating,
- laborious,
- plaguey,
- hybridizing,
- unvoiced,
- muttering,
- big,
- husky,
- rigid,
- challenge,
- ardent,
- crown of thorns,
- fricative consonant,
- smutty,
- pestered,
- hybridization,
- noisome,
- sophism,
- get over,
- tendencious,
- sky,
- gruelling,
- grumble,
- furnace lining,
- equivalence,
- self-contradictory,
- tight,
- piffling,
- scratchy,
- sovereign,
- fly ball,
- narrow-minded,
- gruntle,
- piquant,
- hybrid,
- typo,
- sour,
- fling,
- loathsome,
- mortifying,
- skillful,
- ultranationalistic,
- approach,
- set on,
- sabre rattling,
- insolent,
- leaf,
- boisterous,
- combat-ready,
- moody,
- saturnine,
- decent,
- appease,
- devilishly,
- spat,
- harried,
- objector,
- fell,
- brutal,
- raw,
- vituperative,
- acerb,
- settle,
- rascal,
- orbit,
- beast,
- ticket,
- queer,
- sticky,
- despicable,
- tolerant,
- mugwump,
- flee,
- very well,
- jittery,
- obstinate,
- toss away,
- nail down,
- self-opinionated,
- opposition,
- dispose,
- contender,
- clumsy,
- activist,
- footling,
- madcap,
- guerilla,
- opinionative,
- free-enterprise,
- convoluted,
- hypersensitized,
- vehement,
- vitriolic,
- deserter,
- unappealing,
- arguing,
- queasy,
- abstract thought,
- stem,
- headlong,
- damn,
- supersensitised,
- horrifying,
- scrap,
- intelligent,
- cruddy,
- fight,
- pin down,
- sod's law,
- unenviable,
- regretful,
- resistive,
- implike,
- sorry,
- somersault,
- wrangle,
- nonmusical,
- unconformist,
- impetuous,
- deadly,
- vital,
- all-fired,
- foil,
- flip-flop,
- perverted,
- piddling,
- bothersome,
- span,
- baffling,
- literal error,
- slaughterous,
- fidgety,
- revolutionary,
- painful,
- inapt,
- mordant,
- tentative,
- assignable,
- switch,
- diabolical,
- root,
- dear,
- rivalry,
- battle,
- onset,
- position,
- menacing,
- castellated,
- busy,
- cruel,
- interbreeding,
- unsavory,
- disputation,
- awry,
- barbed,
- pass,
- minute,
- freelance,
- wildcat,
- impeding,
- sore,
- throw out,
- warriorlike,
- nervy,
- interbreed,
- liverish,
- overnice,
- dour,
- convulse,
- combatant,
- assail,
- protester,
- altercate,
- equate,
- concentrated,
- heavy,
- galling,
- uncollectible,
- flag-waver,
- thwart,
- actual,
- constringe,
- tearaway,
- jesuit,
- obnoxious,
- peckish,
- unsuitable,
- patch up,
- furious,
- hypersensitised,
- varlet,
- toss out,
- sensitised,
- bolshy,
- irregular,
- discriminatory,
- opposite,
- irritation,
- flag-waving,
- pacify,
- blinking,
- vexing,
- crimson,
- allergic,
- roguish,
- overcritical,
- backbreaking,
- snarly,
- specialise,
- red-hot,
- sulphurous,
- fickle,
- vicious,
- riff,
- clamouring,
- dark,
- bristled,
- uncivil,
- wild,
- strident,
- battlemented,
- tense up,
- fencesitter,
- cumbersome,
- tilt,
- company,
- field,
- strain,
- untuneful,
- main,
- heavily,
- bounderish,
- reprobate,
- toilsome,
- inharmonic,
- battler,
- run afoul,
- thwartwise,
- building complex,
- reverse,
- fly front,
- insubordinate,
- misprint,
- thinking,
- filthy,
- unwanted,
- hard-bitten,
- schismatical,
- fighter,
- on the table,
- rascally,
- precipitate,
- wing,
- rigorous,
- wayward,
- exceptionable,
- plaguy,
- hue and cry,
- impassioned,
- primitive,
- take flight,
- wrong,
- rough,
- annoyance,
- voiceless,
- rowdy,
- uptight,
- knockout,
- inauspicious,
- decisive,
- intemperate,
- verbalize,
- brute,
- ungracious,
- flip out,
- natural,
- snotty-nosed,
- forbidding,
- arch,
- perfervid,
- restive,
- real,
- combat,
- superpatriotic,
- immune,
- flack,
- riotous,
- recalcitrant,
- acerbic,
- worthless,
- nagging,
- haggling,
- rebel,
- equal,
- unfit,
- reluctant,
- uneasy,
- difference of opinion,
- riot,
- lenify,
- crude,
- lienal,
- discrepant,
- sweep,
- traverse,
- offense,
- snappy,
- vanish,
- repellent,
- unorthodox,
- aviate,
- vaporize,
- make up,
- uncongenial,
- specify,
- tack,
- rapscallion,
- forged,
- sports stadium,
- sinister,
- pillory,
- ratter,
- disaffected,
- strained,
- competitor,
- sickening,
- hard-and-fast,
- impulsive,
- armed forces,
- fencing material,
- hunky-dory,
- uncivilized,
- puckish,
- cutthroat,
- tone-beginning,
- spoilt,
- hybridisation,
- war-ridden,
- alternate,
- bunglesome,
- spoiled,
- unmannered,
- tent-fly,
- gnarly,
- thumb,
- active,
- turbulent,
- trivial,
- crossing,
- prissy,
- unsympathetic,
- firmly,
- comparison,
- scene of action,
- war advocacy,
- difference,
- wavy-grained,
- harassed,
- haggle,
- freedom fighter,
- sulfurous,
- self-governing,
- mad,
- bitter,
- untoward,
- subversive,
- constrict,
- mulct,
- spoil,
- lash out,
- aggress,
- ok,
- fervent,
- mephistophelean,
- ill-affected,
- accommodate,
- narrow down,
- burry,
- severe,
- squabble,
- tent flap,
- exquisitely,
- amazon,
- spunky,
- uncivilised,
- reconcile,
- contrarious,
- precipitant,
- armed services,
- vile,
- refutable,
- confutable,
- contestant,
- loth,
- throw away,
- military machine,
- severely,
- bowl,
- erratum,
- hardly,
- soi-disant,
- biliary,
- hybridise,
- disagree,
- plan of attack,
- punishing,
- incendiary bomb,
- tender,
- incitive,
- specialize,
- sanguine,
- diabolic,
- shrewmouse,
- nauseating,
- tangled,
- twitch,
- chapelgoer,
- unmannerly,
- unresolved,
- bowelless,
- address,
- fence,
- rainfly,
- dubious,
- strong-growing,
- all-firedly,
- knobbed,
- appellate,
- blistering,
- intemperately,
- flip over,
- briary,
- byzantine,
- assault,
- mollify,
- cast aside,
- sibilant,
- barbellate,
- match,
- tough,
- frustrate,
- mephistophelian,
- competition,
- murmuring,
- somerset,
- freelancer,
- negociate,
- snarled,
- typographical error,
- baleful,
- slimy,
- ominous,
- impish,
- fervid,
- thresh about,
- minacious,
- glowering,
- straining,
- curly-grained,
- incompatible,
- guerrilla,
- livery,
- clamor,
- particular,
- pitch,
- ungainly,
- thrash about,
- unworthy,
- deviant,
- consider,
- supersensitized,
- self-employed person,
- alright,
- confutative,
- bally,
- argument,
- firebomb,
- mental attitude,
- disaccord,
- infringe,
- crisscross,
- crashing,
- controversialist,
- pernicious,
- gainsay,
- contestation,
- knotted,
- tiff,
- fly sheet,
- live,
- erratic,
- ill at ease,
- courteous,
- pregnant,
- rumble,
- morose,
- tippy,
- taxing,
- plaintiff in error,
- pixilated,
- little,
- plucky,
- finely,
- verbalise,
- encrusted,
- cool,
- teasing,
- high-priced,
- vexatious,
- transferrable,
- caustic,
- clamour,
- overstrung,
- chuck,
- scallywag,
- bicker,
- fire,
- contravene,
- chemical group,
- spiny,
- wolf,
- turncoat,
- gnarled,
- free lance,
- punitory,
- wicked,
- touch,
- acrid,
- frightful,
- liken,
- pass over,
- burred,
- picayune,
- vexation,
- red,
- at variance,
- crossbreed,
- roughshod,
- crossbreeding,
- delicate,
- sensitized,
- mark,
- venomous,
- disabling,
- composite,
- argufy,
- self-asserting,
- cacophonic,
- tearing,
- unlikeable,
- spirant,
- speculative,
- sphere,
- finical,
- lowering,
- transverse,
- put away,
- thresh,
- cut through,
- suspect,
- recreant,
- in question,
- splenic,
- amercement.
- 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:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
controversial, disputable, disputed.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
ambiguous, argumentative, barbed, challenging, complicated, controversy, delicate, difficult, doubtful, dubious, inconsistent, intractable, moot, outstanding, polemic, problematic, spiny, tough, tricky, troubled, troubling, Impugned, Conflictive, conflict-ridden.
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Proper noun, singular
actions, cases, complaints.
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Noun, plural
Ones, claims, cases, disagreements.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
arguable, conflicting, confrontational, contestable, contested, contradictory, debatable, divisive, litigious, objectionable, polemical, questionable, sensitive, sticking, thorny, uncontroversial, adversarial, conflictual.
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Adjective
Homophones for Contentious:
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Nearby words
- Contentful
- contenting
- contention
- contentions
- contentiou
- Contentious
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