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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(1.33 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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. Thomas Carlyle:

   Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

2. Latin Proverb:

   Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping.

3. Dutch Proverb:

   When two quarrel, both are to blame.

4. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

   A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two.

5. Cato the Elder:

   From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.