Agonistic
Agonistic adjective - Feeling or displaying eagerness to fight.
Usage example: clearly a writer with a chip on his shoulder, he's very agonistic even when stating indisputable facts
Fractious and agonistic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fractious" instead an adjective "Agonistic".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- irritable and agonistic
- irritable and fractious
- cranky and agonistic
- cranky and fractious
- testy and agonistic
- testy and fractious
- prickly and agonistic
- prickly and fractious
- irascible and agonistic
- irascible and fractious
- quarrelsome and agonistic
- quarrelsome and fractious
- querulous and agonistic
- querulous and fractious
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