Synonyms of the word quarrel


QUARRELALTERCATE - ARGUE - ARGUFY - ARROW - CONFLICT - CONTEND - DEBATE - DIFFERENCE - DISPUTE - DUSTUP - FENCE - ROW - RUN-IN - SCRAP - WORDS - WRANGLE

quarrel

  • n. A verbal dispute or heated argument.
  • n. A ground of dispute or objection; a complaint.
  • n. (obsolete) earnest desire or longing.
  • v. (intransitive) To disagree.
  • v. (intransitive) To contend, argue fiercely, squabble.
  • v. (intransitive) To find fault; to cavil.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To argue or squabble with.
  • n. A diamond-shaped piece of coloured glass forming part of a stained glass window.
  • n. A square tile; quarry tile.
  • n. A square-headed arrow for a crossbow.
  • n. A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps etc. make the form nearly square.
  • n. A four-sided cutting tool or chisel with a diamond-shaped end.

altercate

  • v. (transitive) To argue, quarrel or wrangle with someone.

argue

  • v. (obsolete) To prove.
  • v. To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply.
  • v. (intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints.
  • v. (intransitive) To have an argument, a quarrel.
  • v. (transitive) To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).

argufy

  • v. to argue without any aim; to dispute; wrangle; to disagree.

arrow

  • n. A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.
  • n. (graph theory) A directed edge.
  • n. (colloquial, darts) A dart.
  • n. (computing) The -> symbol, which has specific meanings in various programming languages.
  • n. (botany) The inflorescence or tassel of a mature sugar cane plant.
  • v. To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow).
  • v. To let fly swiftly and directly.
  • v. (botany, of a sugar cane plant, intransitive) To develop an inflorescence.
  • v. (computing, intransitive) To navigate using the arrow keys.
  • contract. (obsolete) Contraction of ever a (sometimes used with a redundant a or an).

conflict

  • n. A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
  • n. An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
  • v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.
  • v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.

contend

  • v. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
  • v. To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
  • v. To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

debate

  • n. (obsolete) Strife, discord.
  • n. An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people,…
  • n. An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
  • n. (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
  • n. (Frequently in French form débat) A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To fight.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
  • v. (transitive) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide.

difference

  • n. (uncountable) The quality of being different.
  • n. (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
  • n. (countable) A disagreement or argument.
  • n. (countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
  • n. (countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
  • n. (obsolete) Choice; preference.
  • n. (heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be…
  • n. (logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
  • v. (transitive) To distinguish or differentiate.

dispute

  • n. An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
  • n. Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial…
  • v. (intransitive) To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
  • v. (transitive) To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
  • v. To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question;…
  • v. To strive or contend about; to contest.
  • v. (obsolete) To struggle against; to resist.

dustup

  • n. (informal) A scuffle or fight.
  • n. (informal, by extension) An argument or dispute.

fence

  • n. A thin, human-constructed barrier which separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter.
  • n. Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods,…
  • n. Skill in oral debate.
  • n. The art or practice of fencing.
  • n. A guard or guide on machinery.
  • n. (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
  • n. (computing, programming) A memory barrier.
  • v. (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
  • v. (transitive) To defend or guard.
  • v. (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
  • v. (intransitive, sports) To engage in (the sport) fencing.
  • v. (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.

row

  • n. A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.
  • n. A line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to…
  • n. (weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
  • v. (transitive) To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
  • v. (intransitive) To be moved by oars.
  • n. A noisy argument.
  • n. A continual loud noise.
  • v. (intransitive) to argue noisily.

run-in

  • n. An encounter; a scrape or brush, especially one involving trouble or difficulty.
  • n. end-phase of a competition.

scrap

  • n. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
  • n. (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
  • n. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
  • n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
  • n. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
  • v. (transitive) To discard.
  • v. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
  • v. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
  • v. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
  • v. (transitive) To make into scrap.
  • n. A fight, tussle, skirmish.
  • v. to fight.

words

  • n. plural of word.
  • n. Angry debate or conversation; argument.
  • n. Lines in a script for a performance.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of word.

wrangle

  • v. (intransitive) To bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily.
  • v. (transitive) To herd (horses or other livestock); (humorously) to supervise, manage (people).
  • v. (transitive) To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.
  • v. Misspelling of wangle.
  • n. An act of wrangling.
  • n. An angry dispute.

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