" disputatious "

1: feeling or displaying eagerness to fight;

  * e.g., " ... a long history of little wars waged by the disputatious countries occupying that European peninsula "

•  Synonyms : 

•  aggressive,

•  agonistic,

•  argumentative,

•  assaultive,

•  bellicose,

•  belligerent,

•  brawly,

•  chippy,

•  combative,

•  confrontational,

•  contentious,

•  discordant,

•  feisty,

•  gladiatorial,

•  militant,

•  pugnacious,

•  quarrelsome,

•  scrappy,

•  truculent,

•  warlike

•  Antonyms : 

•  nonaggressive,

•  nonbelligerent,

•  pacific,

•  peaceable,

•  peaceful,

•  unbelligerent,

•  uncombative,

•  uncontentious

2: given to arguing;

  * e.g., " ... a disputatious professor who could give you an argument on just about anything "

•  Synonyms : 

•  argumentative,

•  contentious,

•  controversial,

•  polemical,

•  quarrelsome,

•  scrappy

•  Antonyms : 

•  noncontroversial,

•  safe,

•  uncontroversial

3: relating to or causing the expression of opposing opinions;

  * e.g., " ... dismayed at the prospect of enduring another disputatious meeting of the school board "

•  Synonyms : 

•  argumentative,

•  contentious,

•  controversial,

•  hot-button,

•  polemical

•  Antonyms : 

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