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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, argumentative |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, antagonistic, ardent, at loggerheads, battling, bellicose, cantankerous, combative, contentious, fierce, fighting, flip, have a bone to pick, have chip on shoulder, have it in for, hostile, hot, hot-tempered, mean, militant, on the outs, ornery, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike |
| Notes: | bellicose orients 'prone to fighting' toward an individual while belligerent refers to an organized body, a national or political entity - a person is bellicose, a nation is belligerent |
| Antonyms: | cooperative, helping, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | opposed/opposing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic, against |
| Synonyms: | against the grain, allergic, anti*, antipathetic, antithetical, antonymous, at cross-purposes, at odds, averse, battling, clashing, combating, conflicting, confronting, contrary, controverting, counter, crossing, defending, defensive, denying, disagreeing, disputed, disputing, dissentient, enemy, exposing, facing, gainsaying, hostile, in opposition, incompatible, inimical, irreconcilable, objecting, obstructive, opposite, protesting, repelling, restrictive, rival, up against, warring |
| Antonyms: | aiding, assisting, compatible, helping, similar |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rival |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | opposing |
| Synonyms: | battling, combatant, combating, competing, competitive, conflicting, contending, contesting, cutthroat, disputing, emulating, emulous, equal, opposed, striving, vying |
| Antonyms: | assisting, associate, supporting |
| Main Entry: | opposed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic |
| Synonyms: | against, allergic, anti, antipathetic, antithetical, antonymous, at cross-purposes, at odds, averse, battling, clashing, combating, conflicting, confronting, contrary, controverting, counter, crossing, defending, defensive, denying, disagreeing, disputed, disputing, dissentient, enemy, exposing, facing, gainsaying, hostile, in opposition, incompatible, inimical, irreconcilable, objecting, obstructive, opposing, opposite, protesting, repelling, restrictive, rival, up against, warring |
| Antonyms: | in favor of |
| Main Entry: | warring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at war |
| Synonyms: | battling, belligerent, combative, fighting |
| Main Entry: | oppositional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | opposing |
| Synonyms: | adversarial, adverse, against the grain, allergic, antagonistic, anti*, antipathetic, antithetical, antonymous, at cross-purposes, at odds, averse, battling, clashing, combating, conflicting, confronting, contrary, controverting, counter, crossing, defending, defensive, denying, disagreeing, disputed, disputing, dissentient, enemy, exposing, facing, gainsaying, hostile, in opposition, incompatible, inimical, irreconcilable, objecting, obstructive, opposed, opposite, protesting, repelling, restrictive, rival, up against, warring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scrappy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | belligerent |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, antagonistic, ardent, at loggerheads, battling, bellicose, cantankerous, combative, contentious, fierce, fighting, flip*, have a bone to pick, have chip on shoulder, have it in for, hostile, hot*, hot-tempered, mean, militant, on the outs, ornery*, pugnacious, quarrelsome, truculent, warlike |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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