Synonyms and Antonyms of quarrelsome
- a quarrelsome student who was always being sent to the principal's office for starting fights in the halls
antagonistic, fierce, hostile, hot-tempered
acidic, bearish, bilious, bristly, choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, disagreeable, dyspeptic, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, rude, snappish, snappy, stroppy [British], surly, testy, touchy, ugly, waspish
- you're so quarrelsome: you can never do anything without a fuss
argumentative, contentious, controversial, disputatious, polemical (also polemic), scrappy
aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, combative, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, truculent, warlike
balky, contrary, ornery, perverse, restive, wayward
disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory
hardheaded, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, pigheaded, resistant, self-opinionated, self-willed, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, uncooperative, unreasonable, unyielding, willful (or wilful)
acidic, bearish, bilious, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, disagreeable, dyspeptic, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured