Synonyms Dictionary
2. misgiving, doubt, question; hesitation, reluctance, unwillingness, disinclination, uncertainty; feeling, odd feeling, bad feeling, Inf. funny feeling; Si. bad vibes, uneasiness, apprehensiveness, Inf. butterflies, SI. heebie-jeebies, jitters, SI. willies, SI. creeps; apprehension, fear, foreboding, presentiment, premonition, prescience, presage; trepidation, disquiet, care, concern; anxiety, dread, alarm, consternation.
3. sudden sickness, nausea, queasiness; repugnance, disgust, turn, loathing. quandary, n. 1. predicament, dilemma, crossroads; perplexity, puzzle, enigma, riddle, conundrum, poser; paradox, knot, knotty problem, Gordian knot; imbroglio, intricacy, entanglement, maze; slough, muddle, quagmire, stalemate; dangerous condition or situation, plight, extremity; hornet's nest, pretty kettle of fish, straits, jam, hot water; pinch, exigency, emergency, trouble, distress, difficulty.
2. uncertainty, indecision, incertitude; dubiousness, doubtfulness, doubt; perplexity, bewilderment, confusedness; indetermination, vacillation, wavering; insecurity, precariousness. quantity, n. 1. amount, substance, measurement, measure, extent, strength; weight, content, capacity; total, sum, whole, lot, aggregate, whole deal, whole shebang; large amount, big amount, lots, lots and lots. 2. share, portion, proportion, quota; dose, dosage, allotment, apportionment; dole, allowance, pittance, spoonful, mouthful, armful, handful, dipperful; batch, lot, pinch. quarrel, n. 1. dispute, discord, wrangle, wrangling, bickering, Si. beef, controversy; contradiction, dissension, variance, difference of opinion; debate, discussion, polemic, logomachy, war of words; contestation, litigation, disputation, argumentation, argument, Inf. words; disagreement, squabble, spat, tiff, Brit. Dial. fratch; personal conflict, Inf. run-in, Inf. hassle, Inf. barney; falling-out, rupture, break, schism, faction, open variance, feud, vendetta.
2. contention, contest, altercation, conflict, clash, Law. chance-medley; SI. blow-up, row, dustup, SI. rhubarb, fracas, fray; uproar, brouhaha, brawl, rumpus, Inf. ruckus, breach of the peace; fight, tussle, donnybrook, Scot. and North Eng. threap, Inf. scrap, Inf. set-to; broil, embroilment, imbroglio, Scot. sturt, Scot. collieshangie; strife, tumult, disturbance, commotion, outbreak, declaration of war; scrimmage, riot, squall, pandemonium.
3. issue, question at issue, battleground, bone of contention, disputed point; apple of discord, Latin, casus belli, cause of complaint, objection, root of the trouble. -v. 4. squabble, altercate, have an altercation; argue, disagree, dispute, spar, have words, Inf. pick a crow; fall out, be at loggerheads, be at odds; spat, tiff, quibble, wrangle; differ, contend, break, carry on a vendetta; make something of it, clash, brawl, be at each other's throats; broil, fight, scuffle, conflict, go on the warpath.
5. debate, dissent, have words, raise voices, have a misunderstanding; contend, take issue, object, Scot. thraw; carp, find fault, raise a complaint; scold, nag, Inf. rip into, Inf. tear into, Inf. bawl out, Inf. lace into, Inf. lay out, Inf. let have it. quarrelsome, adj. 1. argumentative, inharmonious, contentious, combative, wranglesome; dissident, dissentient, dissentious; exceptive, controversial, litigious, disputatious, hostile, unpacific, pugnacious, combative; discordant, bellicose, battlesome, belligerent, brawling, turbulent; fiery, hot, hot-headed, hot-tempered; peppery, quick-tempered, Inf. quick on the trigger.
2. antagonistic, unfriendly, unamiable, alienating; abrupt, sharp, acrimonious, caustic, sarcastic, biting, thorny; vixenish, shrewish, termagant; fractious,
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