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contentiousadjective feeling or displaying eagerness to fightthe Tartars were a contentious people who terrorized much of Asia and eastern Europe during the Middle Ages aggressive, agonistic, argumentative, assaultive, bellicose, belligerent, brawly, chippy, combative, confrontational, discordant, disputatious, feisty, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike antagonistic, fierce, hostile, hot-temperedacidic, bearish, bilious, bristly, choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, disagreeable, dyspeptic, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, rude, snappish, snappy, stroppy(British), surly, testy, touchy, ugly, waspishsavage, viciousbattling, fighting, warring on the warpath nonaggressive, nonbelligerent, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, unbelligerent, uncombative, uncontentious anti-imperialist, antimilitarist, unwarlikeaffable, amiable, amicable, benevolent, complaisant, conciliatory, cordial, easygoing, friendly, genial, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, ingratiating, kindhearted, obliging, pleasant, sociablecalm, quiet, relaxed, serene, tranquilbenign, gentle, kindly, mild given to arguinga tiresomely contentious person who likes to argue for the sake of arguing argumentative, controversial, disputatious, polemical(also polemic), quarrelsome, scrappy aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, combative, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, truculent, warlikefeisty, fractious, surlybalky, contrary, ornery, perverse, restive, waywarddisobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractoryhardheaded, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, pigheaded, resistant, self-opinionated, self-willed, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, uncooperative, unreasonable, unyielding, willful(or wilful)acidic, bearish, bilious, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, disagreeable, dyspeptic, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, peevish, pettish, petulant, querulous, rude, snappish, snappy, splenetic, testy, touchy, waspishbattling, fighting, warring affable, amiable, amicable, benevolent, cordial, easygoing, friendly, genial, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, ingratiating, pleasant, sociableacquiescent, agreeable, amenable, complaisant, compliant, complying, conciliatory, cooperative, obligingdocile, obedient, submissive, tractablepacific, peaceable, peaceful relating to or causing the expression of opposing opinionsgun control is likely to be a contentious subject in any group discussion argumentative, controversial, disputatious, hot-button, polemical(also polemic) delicate, difficult, knotty, problematic(also problematical), spiny, thorny, ticklish, touchy, tough noncontroversial, safe, uncontroversial incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, undeniable, unquestionableirrefutableuncontested, undisputed belligerent, bellicose, pugnacious, quarrelsome, contentious mean having an aggressive or fighting attitude.belligerent often implies being actually at war or engaged in hostilities.belligerent nations bellicose suggests a disposition to fight.a drunk in a bellicose mood pugnacious suggests a disposition that takes pleasure in personal combat.a pugnacious gangster quarrelsome stresses an ill-natured readiness to fight without good cause.the heat made us all quarrelsome contentious implies perverse and irritating fondness for arguing and quarreling.wearied by his contentious disposition in the 15th century |