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disputatiousadjective feeling or displaying eagerness to fighta long history of little wars waged by the disputatious countries occupying that European peninsula aggressive, agonistic, argumentative, assaultive, bellicose, belligerent, brawly, chippy, combative, confrontational, contentious, discordant, 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 disputatious professor who could give you an argument on just about anything argumentative, contentious, controversial, 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 opinionsdismayed at the prospect of enduring another disputatious meeting of the school board argumentative, contentious, controversial, 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 in 1660 |