strifeful

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adjective

Full of strife; quarrelsome, polemic, contentious.

Opposite
strifeless
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Meanings

adjectivestrifeful (comparative more strifeful, superlative most strifeful)

comparative more strifeful · superlative most strifeful · alternative strifull

  1. Full of strife; quarrelsome, polemic, contentious.

    But strifull minde, and diuerse qualitee / Drew them in parts, and each made others foe [...].

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

    Antonyms: strifeless

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveFull of strife; quarrelsome, polemic, contentious.

Opposite
strifeless

Origin

From strife + -ful.

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Chicago

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