adj. Function: adjective
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Synonyms: BELLIGERENT , bellicose, combative, contentious, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, ||ructious, truculent, warlike
Related Words: adverse, antagonistic, counter; antipathetic, hostile, inimical, rancorous
Idioms: having a chip on one's shoulder
2 apt or disposed to quarrel FF1C; when he's in a bad mood he becomes so quarrelsome FF1E;
Synonyms: battlesome, brawling, brawlsome, brawly, scrappy; compare BELLIGERENT
Related Words: argumentative; disputatious; cankered, crabbed, irascible, irritable
Contrasted Words: conciliatory, propitiatory