Synonyms for quarrel
ˈkwɔr əl, ˈkwɒr-quar·rel

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1. quarrel

   A feud is enmity between families, clans, or parties, with acts of hostility mutually retaliated and avenged; feud is rarely used of individuals, never of nations. While all the other words of the group may refer to that which is transient, a feud is long-enduring, and often hereditary. Dissension is used of a number of persons, of a party or other organization. Bitterness is in feeling only; enmity and hostility involve will and purpose to oppose or injure. A quarrel is in word or act, or both, and is commonly slight and transient, as we speak of childish quarrels; contention and strife may be in word or deed; contest ordinarily involves some form of action. Contest is often used in a good sense, contention and strife very rarely so. Controversy is commonly in words; strife extends from verbal controversy to the contests of armies. Affray, brawl, and broil, like quarrel, are words of inferior dignity. An affray or broil may arise at a street corner; the affray always involves physical force; the brawl or broil may be confined to violent language.

   Synonyms:
   affray, animosity, bitterness, brawl, broil, contention, contest, controversy, dispute, dissension, enmity, feud, fray, hostility, strife

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1. quarrelnoun

   Synonyms:
   brawl, altercation, affray, squabble, feud, tumult, dispute, wrangle, variance, disagreement, misunderstanding, hostility, quarreling, embroilment, bickering, broil

   Antonyms:
   confabulation, conversation, chat, pleasantry, conciliation, agreement, harmony, understanding, friendliness, peace, amity, good will

2. quarrelverb

   Synonyms:
   wrangle, squabble, dispute, spur, jangle, fall out, bicker, brawl

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1. quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustupnoun

   an angry dispute

   "they had a quarrel"; "they had words"

   Synonyms:
   words, wrangle, course, lyric, haggling, language, speech, wrangling, row, run-in, dustup, rowing, actor's line, haggle

2. quarrelverb

   an arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges

   Synonyms:
   run-in, dustup, words, row, wrangle

3. quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercateverb

   have a disagreement over something

   "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"

   Synonyms:
   altercate, junk, gainsay, challenge, trash, dispute, scrap, argufy

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1. quarrelnoun

   Synonyms:
   brawl, feud, affray, fray, contention, altercation, wrangle, contest, squabble, broil, jar, breach, rupture, difference, disagreement, dissension, bickering, quarrelling, strife, breeze, falling out

2. quarrelverb

   Synonyms:
   wrangle, squabble, bicker, BRAWL, dispute, spar, jangle, TIFF, fall out, have words, have an altercation, be at variance, have a bone to pick, pick a quarrel

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1. quarrelnoun

   Synonyms:
   altercation, disagreement, dispute, brawl, affray, fray, variance, bickering, contention, wrangle, spat, tiff, squabble, broil, dissension

2. quarrelverb

   Synonyms:
   wrangle, altercate, dispute, contend, squabble, bicker, spar, jangle, disagree, clash, dissent, differ

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1. List of paraphrases for "quarrel":

   feud, dispute

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How to use quarrel in a sentence?

1. May Sarton:

   It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

2. Steve Balch:

   My quarrel isn’t with people who think diversity, equity and inclusion are good things, my argument and the argument of the NAS is turning them into dogma and then using them to vet faculty members, graduate students, undergraduate students – creating aversive environment in which you feel you have to swear fealty to a particular creed. I think that’s wrong.

3. Vivien Leigh:

   Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?

4. Ken Paxton:

   We have no quarrel with the district court's stay, which provides the states with an opportunity to develop plans to address the health care needs of their residents for the day this ruling is ultimately upheld.

5. Dan Simmons:

   An artist on Esperance had once said to me, "Having sex or a domestic quarrel with the house monitors on is like undressing in front of a dog or cat ... it gives you pause the first time, and then you forget about it.