Synonyms of contentious
- 2 Syllables
- scrappier, hawkish, spiky, factious, spikier, scrappy, pettish, ructious, jousting, testy, fighting
- 3 Syllables
- pugnacious, polemic, eristic, petulant, fire-eating, hostile, litigious, warlike, cat-and-dog, militant, resentful, truculent, querulous, perverse
- 4 Syllables
- disputatious, eristical, polemical, aggressive, debateable, belligerent, disagreeable, combative, controversial, irritable, gladiatorial, litigiousness, quarrelsome, assertory, ill-humored
- 5 Syllables
- antagonistic, disputative, confrontational
- 6 Syllables
- oversensitive, argumentative