contest

answering; responsive, respondent; conclusive.

contending; together by the ears, at loggerheads at war at issue., competitive, rival; belligerent; contentious, combative, bellicose, unpeaceful; warlike; quarrelsome; pugnacious; pugilistic, gladiatorial; palestric, palestrical.

disagreeing; discordant, discrepant; at variance, at war; hostile, antagonistic, repugnant, incompatible, irreconcilable, inconsistent with; unconformable, exceptional; intrusive, incongruous; disproportionate, disproportionated; unharmonious; unconsonant; divergent, repugnant to., inapt, unapt, inappropriate, improper; unsuited, unsuitable; inapplicable, not to the point; unfit, unfitting, unbefitting; unbecoming; illtimed, unseasonable, mal a propos, inadmissible; inapposite (irrelevant)., uncongenial; ill-assorted, ill-sorted; mismatched, misjoined, misplaced, misclassified; unaccommodating, irreducible, uncommensurable; unsympathetic., out of character, out of keeping, out of proportion, out of joint, out of tune, out of place, out of season, out of its element; at odds with, at variance with.

litigious (quarrelsome); qui tam; coram judice, sub judice.

opposing, opposed; adverse, antagonistic; contrary; at variance; at issue, at war with., unfavorable, unfriendly; hostile, inimical, cross, unpropitious., in hostile array, front to front, with crossed bayonets, at daggers drawn; up in arms; resistant., competitive, emulous.

contending, contentious; armed, armed to the teeth, armed cap-a-pie; sword in hand; in arms, under arms, up in arms; at war with; bristling with arms; in battle array, in open arms, in the field; embattled; battled., unpacific, unpeaceful; belligerant, combative, armigerous, bellicose, martial, warlike; military, militant; soldierlike, soldierly., chivalrous; strategical, internecine.