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.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • 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.
  •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.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • Litigiousness,
  • scrappiness,
  • belligerents,
  • scrappies,
  • Contraries.
  •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:
  • 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.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • 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.