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scrappy
[skrap-ee] 
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scrappy
[skrap-ee]
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| 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
| Main Entry: | argumentative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wanting to quarrel |
| Synonyms: | belligerent, combative, contentious, contrary, controversial, disputatious, factious, fire-eating, having a chip on one's shoulder, litigious, opinionated, pugnacious, quarrelsome, salty, scrappy, spiky, touchy |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, complaisant, friendly |
| Main Entry: | belligerent |
| 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: | combative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aggressive |
| Synonyms: | antagonistic, bellicose, belligerent, cantankerous, contentious, cussed, energetic, fire-eating, gladiatorial, hawkish, militant, ornery*, pugnacious, quarrelsome, ructious, scrappy, strenuous, trigger-happy, truculent, warlike, warring |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, compromising, peaceful, peaceloving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feisty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spirited; touchy |
| Synonyms: | active, alive, bubbly, courageous, difficult, enthusiastic, excitable, fiery, frisky, full of pep, game, gritty, gutsy, gutty, high-strung, hot-blooded, lively, mettlesome, ornery, peppy, quarrelsome, scrappy, sensitive, spunky, thin-skinned, tough, truculent, zestful |
| Main Entry: | fighting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aggressive, warlike |
| Synonyms: | angry, argumentative, battling, bellicose, belligerent, boxing, brawling, combative, contending, contentious, determined, disputatious, disputative, fencing, ferocious, hawkish, hostile, jingoistic, jousting, martial, militant, militaristic, pugnacious, quarrelsome, ready to fight, resolute, scrappy, skirmishing, sparring, tilting, truculent, unbeatable, under arms, up in arms, warmongering, wrestling |
| Antonyms: | peaceloving |
| Main Entry: | fractious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grouchy, cross |
| Synonyms: | awkward, captious, crabby, disorderly, fretful, froward, huffy, indocile, indomitable, intractable, irritable, mean, ornery*, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, querulous, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, scrappy, snappish, testy, thin-skinned, touchy, uncompliant, undisciplined, unmanageable, unruly, wayward, wild |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, complaisant, happy, nice, patient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fragmentary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broken, incomplete |
| Synonyms: | bitty, disconnected, discrete, disjointed, fractional, incoherent, part, partial, piecemeal, scattered, scrappy, sketchy, unsystematic |
| Antonyms: | all, complete, total, unbroken, whole |
| Main Entry: | hostile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic, mean |
| Synonyms: | adverse, alien, allergic, anti*, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, bitter, catty, chill*, cold*, competitive, contentious, contrary, disapproving, dour, hateful, ill-disposed, inhospitable, inimical, malevolent, malicious, malignant, militant, nasty, opposed, opposite, oppugnant, ornery*, pugnacious, rancorous, scrappy, sour*, spiteful, surly, unfavorable, unfriendly, unkind, unpropitious, unsociable, unsympathetic, unwelcoming, viperous, virulent, vitriolic, warlike |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, friendly, gentle, kind, nice, welcoming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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