Contentious
Contentious adjective - Feeling or displaying eagerness to fight.
Eristical and contentious are semantically related In some cases you can use "Eristical" instead an adjective "Contentious".
Nearby Word: contention
Eristical
Eristical adjective - Given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments.
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Synonyms for Eristical
Contentious and eristical are semantically related in argumentative topic. You can use "Contentious" instead an adjective "Eristical".
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Related pairs
- testy and contentious
- testy and eristical
- quarrelsome and contentious
- quarrelsome and eristical
- belligerent and contentious
- belligerent and eristical
- controversial and contentious
- controversial and eristical
- combative and contentious
- combative and eristical
- argumentative and contentious
- argumentative and eristical
- disputatious and contentious
- disputatious and eristical
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