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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being disagreeable |
| Synonyms: | argumentative, bad-tempered, bellicose, belligerent, brawling, cantankerous, cat-and-dog, choleric, churlish, combative, contentious, crabby, cross, disputatious, dissentious, excitable, fiery, fractious, gladiatorial, hasty, have chip on shoulder, hotheaded, huffy, impassioned, irascible, irritable, litigious, ornery, passionate, peevish, pettish, petulant, pugnacious, querulous, ructious, snappy, tempestuous, thin-skinned, touchy, truculent, turbulent, unruly, violent, war |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, forgiving, friendly, good-natured, happy, patient |
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| Concept: | Contention. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional Antagonism |
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-adjectives
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.
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| Concept: | Opposition. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
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-adjectives
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.
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| Antonyms: | cooperation |
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| Concept: | Warfare. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
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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.
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| Antonyms: | peace |
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