Definition for Factious:

• Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; - said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels.

Synonyms for Factious:

• adj.

  •argumentative (adjective)
  • polemical,
  • spikiest,
  • opinionated,
  • spiky,
  • spikier,
  • polemic,
  • scrappy,
  • salty,
  • fire eating,
  • having a chip on one's shoulder,
  • fire-eating.
  •conflicting, warring (adjective)
  • belligerent,
  • divisive,
  • malcontent,
  • turbulent,
  • refractory,
  • hostile,
  • fighting,
  • disputatious,
  • sectarian,
  • disaffected,
  • estranged,
  • litigious,
  • insurrectionary,
  • rival,
  • partisan,
  • troublemaking,
  • contending,
  • alienated.
  •contentious (adjective)
  • dis-agreeable,
  • dis agreeable.
  •contumacious (adjective)
  • stubborn.
  •defiant (adjective)
  • conflicting,
  • recalcitrant,
  • defiant,
  • bold,
  • resistant,
  • daring,
  • audacious,
  • confrontational,
  • challenging,
  • insolent,
  • obstinate,
  • dissenting.
  •disobedient (adjective)
  • intractable,
  • subversive,
  • traitorous,
  • unmanageable,
  • out of control,
  • disloyal,
  • treasonous,
  • Disregardful,
  • ungovernable,
  • mischievous,
  • Disobeying,
  • unruly,
  • wayward,
  • nonconformist,
  • Misbehaving,
  • contrary,
  • treacherous,
  • undisciplined,
  • disobedient.
  •divergent (adjective)
  • factional,
  • unsimilar,
  • poles apart,
  • unalike,
  • most opposite.
  •rebellious (adjective)
  • in-corrigible,
  • more sabotaging,
  • most sabotaging,
  • more attacking,
  • most attacking,
  • in corrigible.

• n.

  •discordant (noun)
  • discordant.
  •dissident (noun)
  • opposing.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • quarrelsome.
  •disputatious
  • argumentative.

Antonyms for Factious:

• adj.

  • conflicting, warring
    agreeing, Cooperating, united, peaceful, cooperative.
  • Other antonyms:
    accordant, amenable, obliging, kind, compliant, governable, accommodating, complaisant, genial.

Factious Sentence Examples:

• Firstly, the Irish Catholics had, on the whole, behaved with marked loyalty and moderation during the wearisome debates on the Union at Dublin, a course of conduct markedly different from the acrid and factious tactics of the privileged Protestant Episcopalians.

• He, during a prolonged Parliamentary experience, had encountered much factious opposition.

Homophones for Factious:

• faustus, fish duck, facetious, fictitious, fish steak, fastidious, festuca, factitious, fascistic, fixed disk, fish stick.