quarreling

The word “quarreling” has 3 syllables: quar-re-ling

It's pronounced as /ˈkwɒr.əlɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for quarreling?

In the thesaurus, “quarreling” has 48 synonyms and 7 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for quarreling along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for quarreling

  • altercating
  • argufying
  • arguing
  • at loggerheads
  • at odds
  • at variance
  • bandying words
  • bickering
  • brabbling
  • brawling
  • butting heads
  • caviling
  • cavilling
  • challenging
  • clashing
  • conflicting
  • considering
  • contending
  • contesting
  • controverting
  • daring
  • debating
  • defying
  • differing
  • discordant
  • discussing
  • disputing
  • falling out
  • fighting
  • fussing
  • hassling
  • in disagreement
  • inharmonious
  • jarring
  • kicking
  • locking horns
  • mixing it up
  • nitpicking
  • objecting
  • protesting
  • quibbling
  • rowing
  • scrapping
  • spatting
  • squabbling
  • tangling
  • tiffing
  • wrangling

Antonyms for quarreling

  • accepting
  • agreeing
  • assenting
  • coexisting
  • concurring
  • consenting
  • getting along

Meanings of quarreling

  • noun
    1. A heated argument.

Example Sentences

  • The neighbors were overheard loudly quarreling about the property line.
  • Siblings often find themselves quarreling over trivial matters.
  • The couple spent the evening quarreling about financial priorities.
  • The team members were caught quarreling over conflicting ideas during the brainstorming session.
  • Despite their close friendship, they found themselves quarreling over differences in political opinions.

On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to quarreling, such as: accepting, agreeing, altercating, argufying, arguing, assenting, at loggerheads.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

bandying words

dealing

  • accomplishment
  • achievement
  • act
  • action
  • action towards
  • activity
  • administration
  • affair
  • alloting
  • allotment
  • angle
  • apportioning
  • apportionment
  • approach
  • arguing
  • assessment
  • assigning
  • attainment
  • attempt
  • auctioning
  • back-and-forth
  • bargain
  • bargaining
  • barter
  • bartering
  • behavior towards
  • bickering
  • black-marketing
  • bootlegging
  • business
  • buying
  • buying and selling
  • castling
  • chaffering
  • change
  • circulating
  • circulation
  • clashing
  • clientele
  • closeness
  • commerce
  • communication
  • communion
  • commutation
  • comparison shopping
  • conduct
  • connection
  • contract
  • conversion
  • cornering
  • correspondence
  • counterfeiting
  • countermeasure
  • countermove
  • counterstep
  • coup
  • course
  • crack
  • crime
  • custom
  • customers
  • cutting a deal
  • day-trading
  • deal
  • dealings
  • deed
  • delivery
  • dicker
  • dickering
  • diffusion
  • dispensation
  • dispersal
  • disposal
  • disposing
  • dissemination
  • dissipating
  • distributing
  • division
  • doing
  • doings
  • dole
  • economics
  • effort
  • employment
  • endeavor
  • engrossing
  • enterprise
  • essay
  • event
  • exchange
  • exchanging
  • execution
  • exertion
  • expedient
  • exploit
  • fair-trading
  • familiarity
  • feat
  • fencing
  • fighting
  • fling
  • go
  • goods
  • habit
  • haggling
  • handing out
  • handling
  • hassling
  • hawking
  • horse trade
  • horse trading
  • horse-trading
  • industry
  • initiative
  • interchange
  • intercourse
  • interdependence
  • interrelation
  • intimacy
  • investing
  • labor
  • line
  • logrolling
  • mailing
  • makeshift
  • management
  • manipulation
  • manner
  • market
  • marketing
  • means
  • measure
  • merchandising
  • merchandizing
  • merchantry
  • method
  • mode
  • modus operandi
  • monopolizing
  • moonshine
  • move
  • negotiating
  • negotiation
  • network
  • operation
  • pains
  • paltering
  • partition
  • partitioning
  • pass
  • patronage
  • peddling
  • picking up
  • piracy
  • plunder
  • poaching
  • practice
  • procedure
  • proceeding
  • process
  • processing
  • project
  • propagation
  • proposal
  • proposition
  • prorating
  • public
  • purchasing
  • quarreling
  • quarrelling
  • quibbling
  • quid pro quo
  • rationing
  • rearrangement
  • rebuying
  • reception
  • reciprocation
  • reciprocity
  • recompense
  • relations
  • relationship
  • replacement
  • requital
  • reselling
  • resort
  • resource
  • retailing
  • revision
  • rum-running
  • sales
  • scattering
  • selling
  • sharing
  • shift
  • shot
  • shuffle
  • shuffling
  • smuggling
  • soliciting
  • speculating
  • spreading
  • squabbling
  • stab
  • step
  • stopgap
  • strategy
  • stuff
  • substitution
  • success
  • supplanting
  • supplantment
  • supplying
  • swag
  • swap
  • swapping
  • switch
  • taking
  • theft
  • thing
  • tit for tat
  • trade
  • trade-off
  • trading
  • traffic
  • trafficking
  • transacting
  • transaction
  • transactions
  • transfer
  • transport
  • transportation
  • transposing
  • transposition
  • trial
  • triumph
  • trouble
  • truck
  • try
  • underselling
  • undertaking
  • usage
  • vending
  • violation
  • way
  • wetbacking
  • whack
  • wheeling and dealing
  • while
  • wholesaling
  • work
  • wrangling

deceiving

  • Pecksniffian
  • ambidextrous
  • ambiguous
  • apocryphal
  • apostate
  • apparent
  • artful
  • artificial
  • astucious
  • astute
  • backbiting
  • backhanded
  • backstabbing
  • bamboozling
  • base
  • beguiling
  • belittling
  • bent
  • bewildering
  • bigoted
  • bleeding
  • bluffing
  • bogus
  • buffaloing
  • bum
  • burning
  • canting
  • casuistic
  • casuistical
  • catching
  • catchy
  • cheating
  • chimeric
  • chimerical
  • chiseling
  • chiselling
  • circuitous
  • clandestine
  • concocted
  • confounding
  • conning
  • contrary to fact
  • cooked-up
  • corrupt
  • counterfactual
  • counterfeit
  • coveting
  • cozening
  • crafty
  • crooked
  • cunning
  • deceitful
  • deception
  • deceptive
  • defaming
  • defrauding
  • degrading
  • deluding
  • delusive
  • delusory
  • demagogic
  • designing
  • devilish
  • devious
  • diddling
  • dishonest
  • dishonesty
  • dishonorable
  • dishonoring
  • disingenuous
  • disloyal
  • disreputable
  • dissembling
  • distorted
  • distracting
  • doing a number on
  • double-crossing
  • double-dealing
  • duping
  • duplicitous
  • elusive
  • equivocal
  • erroneous
  • ersatz
  • euchring
  • evasive
  • faithless
  • fake
  • faking out
  • fallacious
  • false
  • falsehearted
  • fanciful
  • fantastic
  • fast
  • faulty
  • feigned
  • feline
  • fictitious
  • fishy
  • fleecing
  • flimflamming
  • fooling
  • forged
  • forsworn
  • foul
  • foxy
  • fraudulent
  • furtive
  • gaffing
  • gammoning
  • goody-goody
  • groveling
  • grudging
  • guileful
  • gulling
  • having
  • having on
  • hoaxing
  • holier-than-thou
  • hoodwinking
  • hornswoggling
  • humbugging
  • hustling
  • hypocritical
  • illogical
  • illusive
  • illusory
  • imaginary
  • impish
  • impostrous
  • imposturous
  • improper
  • inaccurate
  • incorrect
  • indirect
  • inexact
  • insidious
  • insincere
  • invalid
  • irrational
  • jive
  • juggling
  • kidding
  • knavish
  • leading one down the garden path
  • leading one up the garden path
  • left-handed
  • lying
  • mad
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • mean
  • mendacious
  • misguiding
  • misinforming
  • misleading
  • misrepresentative
  • mistaken
  • mock
  • mulcting
  • mythomaniac
  • naughty
  • oblique
  • off
  • off the mark
  • ostensible
  • perfidious
  • perjured
  • perplexing
  • pharisaical
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pietistic
  • pious
  • plausible
  • playful
  • preachy
  • puckish
  • putting on
  • puzzling
  • quarreling
  • quixotic
  • rascal
  • rascally
  • reasonless
  • recreant
  • renegade
  • roguish
  • rooking
  • scheming
  • scolding
  • scoundrelly
  • seeming
  • self-satisfied
  • serpentine
  • shady
  • sham
  • shaming
  • shifty
  • shortchanging
  • sinister
  • skinning
  • slick
  • slippery
  • sly
  • smug
  • sneaking
  • sneaky
  • snide
  • snookering
  • snowing
  • sophistic
  • sophistical
  • specious
  • spoofing
  • spurious
  • squeezing
  • stealthy
  • sticking
  • stinging
  • stringing along
  • stuffy
  • subtile
  • subtle
  • suckering
  • sucking in
  • swindling
  • taking in
  • teasing
  • traitorous
  • treacherous
  • treasonable
  • trick
  • tricking
  • trickish
  • tricky
  • trumped-up
  • two-faced
  • two-timing
  • unctuous
  • underhand
  • underhanded
  • unfair
  • unfaithful
  • unfounded
  • ungrounded
  • unprincipled
  • unreal
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoned
  • unreliable
  • unscrupulous
  • unsound
  • untrue
  • untrustworthy
  • untruthful
  • venal
  • villainous
  • visionary
  • way-off
  • wicked
  • wily
  • wrong

falling out

  • affray
  • altercating
  • altercation
  • argle-bargle
  • argufying
  • arguing
  • argument
  • argy-bargy
  • attack
  • bandying words
  • battle royal
  • bicker
  • bickering
  • brabbling
  • brawl
  • brawling
  • butting heads
  • catfight
  • caviling
  • cavilling
  • challenging
  • clash
  • clashing
  • coming out
  • considering
  • contending
  • contention
  • contesting
  • contretemps
  • controversy
  • controverting
  • cross fire
  • daring
  • debate
  • debating
  • defying
  • developing
  • difference
  • disagreement
  • discussing
  • disputation
  • dispute
  • disputing
  • dissension
  • dissention
  • donnybrook
  • emerging
  • evolving
  • exchange
  • feud
  • fight
  • fighting
  • fisticuffs
  • fracas
  • fray
  • free-for-all
  • friction
  • fuss
  • fussing
  • germinating
  • hassle
  • hassling
  • imbroglio
  • jarring
  • kicking
  • kickup
  • locking horns
  • logomachy
  • melee
  • misunderstanding
  • mixing it up
  • nitpicking
  • objecting
  • objection
  • panning out
  • playing out
  • protest
  • protestation
  • protesting
  • proving
  • quarrel
  • quarreling
  • quarrelling
  • quibbling
  • rhubarb
  • row
  • rowing
  • run-in
  • scrap
  • scrapping
  • set-to
  • shaking out
  • sharp words
  • skirmish
  • snarl
  • spat
  • spatting
  • squabble
  • squabbling
  • strife
  • tangle
  • tangling
  • tiff
  • tiffing
  • turning out
  • tussle
  • unfolding
  • vendetta
  • working out
  • wrangle
  • wrangling

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