What are the antonyms for CONTENTIOUS?
- good-tempered, tractable, safe, complaisant, gracious, peaceful, uncontested, conciliatory, serene, good-natured, compliant, benign, noncontroversial, acquiescent, genial, kindhearted, pleasant, tranquil, ingratiating, incontestable, gentle, amiable, sociable, calm, pacific, unargumentative, amenable, relaxed, cooperative, undisputed, indubitable, unquestionable, friendly, agreeable, incontrovertible, kindly, cordial, docile, affable, obedient, obliging, amicable, benevolent, submissive, undeniable, nonaggressive, easygoing, irrefutable, quiet, complying, unwarlike, mild, nonbelligerent, indisputable.
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Synonyms for CONTENTIOUS
- confrontational,
- vituperous,
- currish,
- feral,
- scrappies,
- antipathetic,
- offending,
- crotchety,
- hot,
- hot-tempered,
- belligerents,
- seditious,
- tetchy,
- pugilistic,
- discourteous,
- sensitive,
- fricative,
- differing,
- disputative,
- pugnacious,
- non-compliant,
- clashing,
- in the field,
- Litigiousness,
- litigious,
- litigant,
- dialectical,
- vexed,
- brawling,
- murphy's law,
- open discussion,
- polemical,
- sanguineous,
- pettish,
- party,
- fretful,
- fire eating,
- in arms,
- oversensitive,
- competitive,
- obstructive,
- prickly,
- unreconciled,
- belligerent,
- thin-skinned,
- costly,
- knotty,
- Eristic,
- flipper,
- fussy,
- bloody-minded,
- cat-and-dog,
- critical,
- violent,
- debatable,
- crusty,
- self-styled,
- shrewish,
- warmongering,
- embarrassing,
- truculent,
- having a chip on one's shoulder,
- Argumental,
- aggravating,
- touchy,
- hard,
- annoying,
- conflicting,
- amiss,
- petulant,
- unfriendly,
- jingo,
- have it in for,
- irritable,
- virulent,
- stroppy,
- rebellious,
- whiniest,
- ugly,
- at war with,
- strict,
- full of fight,
- spiky,
- argumentative,
- have for,
- study at belligerent,
- chauvinistic,
- supersensitive,
- inharmonious,
- rowing,
- nonconforming,
- factious,
- up in arms,
- complex,
- notorious,
- bloodthirsty,
- antagonistic,
- Contraries,
- peevish,
- ill-disposed,
- Squabbling,
- Doubtable,
- unpeaceable,
- grumbling,
- in opposition,
- ticklish,
- scrappiness,
- volatile,
- disputant,
- temperamental,
- mischievous,
- on edge,
- spikiest,
- huffy,
- offensive,
- expensive,
- hypercritical,
- surly,
- schismatic,
- jingoist,
- aggressive,
- censorious,
- loath,
- defendant,
- mutinous,
- apostate,
- burdensome,
- Battled,
- contention,
- perverse,
- carping,
- at odds,
- independent,
- open to discussion,
- disputatious,
- hot-button,
- Sub Judice,
- quick-tempered,
- militaristic,
- nonconformist,
- divisive,
- provocative,
- martial,
- raucous,
- devilish,
- resistant,
- quibbling,
- discord,
- jingoish,
- hostile,
- hasty,
- unharmonious,
- bilious,
- tuneless,
- fractious,
- literal,
- captious,
- contending,
- Assertory,
- subtle,
- colliding,
- highly strung,
- ready to fight,
- moot,
- Fretting,
- agonistic,
- Moodish,
- military,
- inhumane,
- fighting,
- Exceptious,
- disharmonious,
- high-strung,
- troublesome,
- ajar,
- anti,
- acrimonious,
- chauvinist,
- Snarling,
- pettifogging,
- picky,
- impatient,
- Chippy,
- controversial,
- incendiary,
- heterodox,
- aberrant,
- inflammatory,
- irascible,
- whinier,
- thorny,
- resentful,
- problematic,
- rude,
- discordant,
- feuding,
- unpleasant,
- whiny,
- hypersensitive,
- difficult,
- cranky,
- disputable,
- disagreeing,
- disruptive,
- obstreperous,
- on the outs,
- conflict,
- rogue,
- nasty,
- curmudgeonly,
- Brawly,
- jesuitical,
- dissonant,
- ill-tempered,
- legalistic,
- under arms,
- bickering,
- cross,
- ill-humored,
- plaintiff,
- fierce,
- contrary,
- self-defeating,
- crabbed,
- rioting,
- intricate,
- splenetic,
- soldierly,
- bad,
- in dispute,
- at loggerheads,
- Aggravative,
- intrusive,
- tense,
- contrarian,
- Battling,
- nettlesome,
- crippling,
- rival,
- salty,
- out of humor,
- armed cap-a-pie,
- peppery,
- ructious,
- clamoring,
- argumentive,
- polemic,
- termagant,
- in battle array,
- corrosive,
- malicious,
- harsh,
- and Irish cranky,
- nice,
- itching to fight,
- nit-picking,
- cacophonous,
- bearish,
- Oppugnant,
- questionable,
- Palestric,
- undesirable,
- cantankerous,
- querulous,
- ornery,
- arguable,
- sanguinary,
- unmusical,
- Eristical,
- sullen,
- savage,
- scathing,
- shrew,
- under discussion,
- doubtful,
- niggling,
- barbarous,
- jingoistic,
- objectionable,
- threatening,
- choleric,
- battleful,
- warrer,
- ferocious,
- dissentious,
- disagreeable,
- bristling with arms,
- unwelcoming,
- saber rattling,
- soldierlike,
- fiery,
- pro and con,
- invidious,
- snappish,
- testy,
- open to question,
- churlish,
- warlike,
- scrappy,
- short-tempered,
- grouchy,
- combative,
- fire-eating,
- trigger-happy,
- bloody,
- dyspeptic,
- radical,
- armed,
- warring,
- dissident,
- crabby,
- awkward,
- militant,
- Controvertible,
- attitude,
- appellant,
- disputed,
- contestable,
- Sword in hand,
- gruff,
- dissentient,
- refractory,
- Unpacified,
- enemy,
- quarrelsome,
- opinionated,
- troublemaking,
- Restiff,
- hottempered,
- edgy,
- jarring,
- virago,
- hawkish,
- gladiatorial,
- jousting,
- unmelodious,
- fraught,
- snippy,
- attack,
- punitive,
- narrow,
- bellicose,
- oppositional,
- ill-humoured,
- cross-grained,
- tendentious,
- exasperating,
- irritating,
- unlikable,
- fine,
- waspish,
- faultfinding,
- unpeaceful,
- bad-tempered,
- Fault-finding,
- contentious,
- adverse,
- passionate,
- dialectic,
- hair-splitting,
- complicated,
- embattled,
- Palestrical,
- grumpy,
- unpacific,
- inimical,
- dispute,
- hotheaded,
- spikier,
- have a bone to pick,
- maverick,
- problem,
- attacking,
- dissenting,
- huffish,
- debateable,
- easily offended,
- Cavilling,
- protesting.
Usage Examples for CONTENTIOUS
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Suppose we call it the contentious or ambitious- would the term be suitable? - "Plato's Republic" by Plato
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My object is not to poach on my neighbour's domains, nor shall I ever be a party to any contentious quarrels for the control of this or that source of supply. - "In-Darkest-England-and-the-Way-Out" by Booth, William
