About The Word Contentious
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Contentious
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What's The Definition Of Contentious?
[adj] having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature"
[adj] involving or likely to cause controversy; "a central and contentious element of the book"- Tim W.Ferfuson [adj] inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; "a style described as abrasive and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a litigious and acrimonious spirit" Synonyms | Synonyms for Contentious: aggressive | argumentative | battleful | bellicose | combative | controversial | disputatious | disputative | litigious Related Terms | Find terms related to Contentious: aggravating | aggravative | aggressive | annoying | antagonistic | argumental | argumentative | battling | bellicose | belligerent | bloodthirsty | bloody | bloody-minded | cat-and-dog | cat-and-doggish | chauvinist | chauvinistic | combative | controversial | dialectic | disputatious | enemy | eristic | exasperating | exasperative | ferocious | fierce | fighting | full of fight | hawkish | hostile | ill-humored | inimical | irritating | jingo | jingoish | jingoist | jingoistic | litigious | logomachic | martial | militant | militaristic | military | offensive | pilpulistic | polemic | pro and con | provocative | pugnacious | quarrelsome | saber-rattling | sanguinary | sanguineous | savage | scrappy | soldierlike | soldierly | trigger-happy | truculent | unfriendly | unpacific | unpeaceable | unpeaceful | warlike | warmongering | warring See Also | Contentious In Webster's Dictionary \Con*ten"tious\, a. [L. contentiosus: cf. F.
contentieux.]
1. Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking
dispute or contention; quarrelsome.
Despotic and contentious temper. --Macaulay.
2. Relating to contention or strife; involving or
characterized by contention. --Spenser.
More cheerful, though not less contentious, regions.
--Brougham.
3. (Law) Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to
decide controversy.
{Contentious jurisdiction} (Eng. Eccl. Law), jurisdiction
over matters in controversy between parties, in
contradistinction to {voluntary jurisdiction}, or that
exercised upon matters not opposed or controverted.
Syn: Quarrelsome; pugnacious; dissentious; wrangling;
litigious; perverse; peevish. -- {Con*ten"tious*ly},
adv. -- {Con*ten"tious*ness}, n.
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