Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
given to quarreling;
- Example: "arguing children"- Example: "quarrelsome when drinking"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Quarrelsome \Quar"rel*some\, a.
Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention;
easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Pugnacious; irritable; irascible; brawling; choleric;
fiery; petulant.
[1913 Webster] -- Quar"rel*some*ly, adv. --
Quar"rel*some*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
quarrelsome
adj 1: given to quarreling; "arguing children"; "quarrelsome
when drinking"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
118 Moby Thesaurus words for "quarrelsome":
acrid, adverse, aggressive, antagonistic, antipathetic, argumental,
argumentative, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, bitter,
bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brawling, cankered,
cat-and-dog, cat-and-doggish, caustic, chauvinist, chauvinistic,
choleric, clashing, colliding, combative, conflicting, contending,
contentious, contestant, contesting, contrary, controversial,
counter, crabbed, cranky, cross, despiteful, dialectic,
disagreeable, disputant, disputatious, dissentient, dissentious,
dissident, divisive, dyspeptic, enemy, eristic, factional,
factious, ferocious, fierce, fighting, fractious, full of fight,
full of hate, grouchy, hateful, hawkish, hostile, ill-humored,
inimical, irascible, irritable, jingo, jingoish, jingoist,
jingoistic, litigious, logomachic, malevolent, malicious,
malignant, martial, militant, militaristic, military, offensive,
partisan, peevish, petulant, pilpulistic, polarizing, polemic,
pro and con, pugnacious, querulous, rancorous, repugnant,
saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy,
set against, shrewish, soldierlike, soldierly, sore, spiteful,
squabbling, striving, struggling, testy, trigger-happy, truculent,
unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, venomous, virulent,
vitriolic, warlike, warmongering, warring, wrangling