ERISTIC Synonyms

• someone who fights (or is fighting)

• characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

• engaged in war

• inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits

• striving to overcome in argument

• having or showing a ready disposition to fight

• of or relating to confrontation

• inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits

• involving or likely to cause controversy

• two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time

• of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false

• that confounds or contradicts or confuses

• in disagreement

• unable for both to exist or be true at the same time

• marked by or capable of arousing controversy

• inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits

• of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem

• a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other

• a relation of direct opposition

• a contestant that you are matched against

• something inverted in sequence or character or effect

• directly facing each other

• being directly across from each other; facing

• moving or facing away from each other

• the other one of a complementary pair

• altogether different in nature or quality or significance

• characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed

• of or involving dispute or controversy

• given to quarreling

• a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy

• a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy

• given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments