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argumentativeadjective given to arguinghe's too argumentative to be part of a project in which teamwork is critical contentious, 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 feeling or displaying eagerness to fightan argumentative gang of bullies always looking for a fight aggressive, agonistic, assaultive, bellicose, belligerent, brawly, chippy, combative, confrontational, contentious, 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 relating to or causing the expression of opposing opinionsa topic that sparked more than a few argumentative conversations around the watercooler contentious, 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 in the 15th century |