Synonyms for contentious

Grammar : Adj

Spell : kuhn-ten-shuhs

Phonetic Transcription : kənˈtɛn ʃəs

Définition of contentious

Origin : c.1500, from Middle French contentieux, from Latin contentiosus "obstinate, quarrelsome," from contentionem (see contend). Related: Contentiously; contentiousness.

adj quarrelsome

Example sentences :

Suppose we call it the contentious or ambitious—would the term be suitable?
Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato

There is nothing to indicate that he was contentious by nature.
Extract from : « Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark » by Jens Christian Aaberg

Of the contentious scribes He asked: "What question ye with them?"
Extract from : « Jesus the Christ » by James Edward Talmage

Let them beware of the first approach of a contentious spirit.
Extract from : « The Young Maiden » by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

Then, he was trying not to be too contentious, but was irritated into retorting.
Extract from : « The Trail of the Hawk » by Sinclair Lewis

For our purposes, however, what he says about contentious learning is the most important.
Extract from : « Reconstruction in Philosophy » by John Dewey

All motive force in him is essentially brutish, covetous, or contentious.
Extract from : « Modern Painters, Volume V (of 5) » by John Ruskin

When it suits their contentious mood they become strict literalists.
Extract from : « The Bible and Life » by Edwin Holt Hughes

I venture to think it one of my most contentious studies from actual nature.
Extract from : « Hide and Seek » by Wilkie Collins

The bishop is charged to be no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious.
Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Pastoral Epistles » by Alfred Plummer

Antonyms for contentious

agreeable

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