donnybrook | Definition of donnybrook

Synonyms and Antonyms of donnybrook

1 a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people

a dozen people were arrested after the donnybrook at the stadium

Synonyms of donnybrook

affray [chiefly British], brawl, broil, fracas, fray, free-for-all, melee (also mêlée), rough-and-tumble, row, ruckus, ruction

Words Related to donnybrook

battle, clash, combat, conflict, contest, fisticuffs, handgrips, hassle, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, skirmish, struggle, tussle

horseplay, roughhousing

altercation, argument, dispute, kickup, quarrel, spat, squabble, tiff, wrangle

2 an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions

the kind of hot-button issue that inevitably creates a donnybrook in the halls of the statehouse

Synonyms of donnybrook

altercation, argle-bargle [chiefly British], argument, argy-bargy [chiefly British], battle royal, bicker, brawl, contretemps, controversy, cross fire, disagreement, dispute, falling-out, fight, hassle, imbroglio, kickup, misunderstanding, quarrel, rhubarb, row, scrap, set-to, spat, squabble, tiff, wrangle

Words Related to donnybrook

clash, run-in, skirmish, tangle, tussle

attack, contention, dissension (also dissention)

debate, difference, disputation

fuss, objection, protest, protestation

affray [chiefly British], fisticuffs, fracas, fray, free-for-all, melee (also mêlée)