Word Meanings - BICKERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A skirmishing. "Frays and bickerings." Milton. 2. Altercation; wrangling.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BICKERING)

• Controversy
• Dispute
• disagreement
• quarrel
• strife
• altercation
• contention
• disputation
• wrangle
• bickering
• question
• Quarrel
• Brawl
• affray
• squabble
• feud
• tumult
• dispute
• variance
• misunderstanding
• hostility
• quarreling
• embroilment
• broil
• Strife
• Struggle
• contest
• animosity
• discord
• emulation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BICKERING)

• Dictate
• state
• assert
• pronounce
• enunciate
• concede
• endorse
• affirm
• grant
• allow

Related words: (words related to BICKERING)

• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• QUARRELING
  Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar"rel*ing*ly, adv.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• ASSERT
  self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
• DISCORDABLE
  That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. Halliwell.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• ASSERTORY
  Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• STRUGGLER
  One who struggles.
• DISPUTATION
  1. The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument. 2. A rhetorical exercise in which
• DISCORD
  Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. For a discord itself is
• QUESTIONIST
  A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time of his examination. (more info) 1. A questioner; an inquirer.
• QUESTIONABLENESS
  The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• PRONOUNCER
  One who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a pronouncing book.
• CONTESTATION
  1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• DISEMBROIL
  To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.