Contentious synonyms | adjectives

Synonyms for Contentious as an Adjective

• combative

  attack, conflict
• quarrelsome

  attack, conflict
• disputatious

  conflict, argumentative
• argumentative

  conflict, quarrelsome
• controversial

  debatable, disputable
• litigious

  conflict, argumentative
• pugnacious

  attack, belligerent
• antagonistic

  quarrelsome, belligerent
• truculent

  attack, belligerent
• disputable

  controversial, debatable
• belligerent

  attack, quarrelsome
• militant
• aggressive
• warlike
• bellicose
• debatable

  controversial, disputable
• polemical
• captious

  argumentative
• cantankerous
• arguable

  debatable, controversial
• hostile
• scrappy
• moot

  controversial
• peevish
• touchy
• fierce

  heated
• petulant

  quarrelsome
• querulous

  quarrelsome, argumentative
• testy
• polemic
• factious

  argumentative
• perverse
• irascible

  belligerent
• disputative
• disagreeable
• disputed

  controversial
• contrary
• confrontational
• violent

  heated
• eristic
• prickly
• hot-tempered
• choleric
• irritable
• gladiatorial
• rebellious

  belligerent
• 

  ugly
• ill-tempered
• open to question
• questionable

  debatable