Quarrelsome
adjective
Ready or likely to argue or fight.
My brother is always quarrelsome when he doesn't get enough sleep.
Often appears as...
- quarrelsome person
- quarrelsome mood
adjective
Ready or likely to argue or fight.
My brother is always quarrelsome when he doesn't get enough sleep.
Often appears as...
- quarrelsome person
- quarrelsome mood
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Suggests a person has an unpleasant character, causing discomfort or annoyance.
At the family gathering, her quarrelsome nature led to a heated argument.
Pro Tip 2/3Provokes Conflict
Implies a person may initiate disputes or escalate situations unnecessarily.
His quarrelsome behavior at meetings makes collaboration difficult.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional State
Can describe someone's temporary behavior due to mood rather than a permanent trait.
She became quarrelsome after losing her job, but she is generally quite amicable.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Suggests a person has an unpleasant character, causing discomfort or annoyance.
At the family gathering, her quarrelsome nature led to a heated argument.
Pro Tip 2/3Provokes Conflict
Implies a person may initiate disputes or escalate situations unnecessarily.
His quarrelsome behavior at meetings makes collaboration difficult.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional State
Can describe someone's temporary behavior due to mood rather than a permanent trait.
She became quarrelsome after losing her job, but she is generally quite amicable.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Suggests a person has an unpleasant character, causing discomfort or annoyance.
At the family gathering, her quarrelsome nature led to a heated argument.
Pro Tip 2/3Provokes Conflict
Implies a person may initiate disputes or escalate situations unnecessarily.
His quarrelsome behavior at meetings makes collaboration difficult.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional State
Can describe someone's temporary behavior due to mood rather than a permanent trait.
She became quarrelsome after losing her job, but she is generally quite amicable.
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argumentumbellicosebelligerentcombativeconfrontationalcontentiousfractiousirritablepugnacious
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Tycho Brahe, the...
Was it from a medicine used to treat his bladder infection? A residue from his alchemy experiments? Or did his quarrelsome coworker Johannes Kepler poison him to acquire his data? We may never know, but the next time you think scientists lead boring lives, dig a little deeper.
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Karen Armstrong: 2008...
self-indulgent guesswork about matters that nobody can be certain of one way or the other, but which makes people quarrelsome and stupidly sectarian.
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Greatest Fights In The...
old shells are highly prized and this one is occupied by a sarcastic fringehead these fish are exceptionally quarrelsome they have
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Tycho Brahe, the...
Was it from a medicine used to treat his bladder infection? A residue from his alchemy experiments? Or did his quarrelsome coworker Johannes Kepler poison him to acquire his data? We may never know, but the next time you think scientists lead boring lives, dig a little deeper.
Video examples
Karen Armstrong: 2008...
self-indulgent guesswork about matters that nobody can be certain of one way or the other, but which makes people quarrelsome and stupidly sectarian.
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Greatest Fights In The...
old shells are highly prized and this one is occupied by a sarcastic fringehead these fish are exceptionally quarrelsome they have
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John Steinbeck
American Author
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
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John McCarthy
American Politician
The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.
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Buddha
Leader
With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
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Buffalo Bill
American Celebrity
Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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Jerome K. Jerome
English Author
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.
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John Steinbeck
American Author
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
Quote examples
John McCarthy
American Politician
The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.
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Buddha
Leader
With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
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Buffalo Bill
American Celebrity
Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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Jerome K. Jerome
English Author
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.
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