About The Word Factious
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Factious
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What's The Definition Of Factious?
[adj] dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Factious: discordant | dissentious | divisive Related Terms | Find terms related to Factious: aggressive | alienated | argumentative | at loggerheads | at odds | bellicose | belligerent | bickering | breakaway | combative | conflicting | contending | contentious | contumacious | disaffected | discordant | disputatious | divisive | eristic | estranged | extreme | extremistic | factional | fighting | insurgent | insurrectionary | irascible | irritable | litigious | mutineering | mutinous | partisan | polarizing | polemic | pugnacious | quarrelsome | rebel | rebellious | refractory | revolutional | revolutionary | riotous | seditionary | seditious | shrewish | subversive | traitorous | treasonable | turbulent | warring | wrangling See Also | Factious In Webster's Dictionary \Fac"tious\ a. [L. factiosus: cf. F. factieux.]
1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise
dissensions, in opposition to government or the common
good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public
measures or men; -- said of persons.
Factious for the house of Lancaster. --Shak.
2. Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction;
indicating, or characterized by, faction; -- said of acts
or expressions; as, factious quarrels.
Headlong zeal or factious fury. --Burke.
-- {Fac"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Fac"tious-ness}, n.
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