adjective
1.
Synonyms: belligerent , bellicose, combative, contentious, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, ||ructious, truculent, warlike
Related Word: adverse, antagonistic, counter; antipathetic, hostile, inimical, rancorous
Idioms: having a chip on one's shoulder
2.
apt or disposed to quarrel
when he's in a bad mood he becomes so quarrelsome
Synonyms: battlesome, brawling, brawlsome, brawly, scrappy; compare belligerent
Related Word: argumentative; disputatious; cankered, crabbed, irascible, irritable
Contrasted words: conciliatory, propitiatory