A contentious issue is one that people are likely to argue about, and a contentious person is someone who likes to argue or fight.
Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife. Living with a difficult wife (19:13; 21:19; 25:24) is a constant theme in Proverbs – because the book is guy talk, father to son!
Contentious: given to arguing or provoking argument. A contentious person likes to be right. If it takes convincing you they're right, then welcome to an argument. Marriages involving contentious spouses struggle.
: exhibiting an often perverse and wearisome tendency to quarrels and disputes.
A contentious issue is one that people are likely to argue about, and a contentious person is someone who likes to argue or fight. Some issues are very controversial. They're also contentious, because people tend to argue about them, and the arguments will probably go on forever.
They are often referred to as “chronic blamers.” They tend to be emotional, aggressive, mistrustful and controlling. They easily see themselves as victims, and they are extremely resistant to acknowledging that they may have contributed, in even the smallest way, to making a situation difficult.
Always ready to argue; quarrelsome. Webster's New World. Involving or causing contention; controversial.
1 tending to argue or quarrel. 2 causing or characterized by dispute; controversial.
Proverbs 12:4 describes two wives: “A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.” One brings good to her husband; one causes harm.
15 A nagging wife is like water going drip-drip-drip on a rainy day. 16 How can you keep her quiet? Have you ever tried to stop the wind or ever tried to hold a handful of oil? 17 People learn from one another, just as iron sharpens iron.
“Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and illtempered wife” (Prov. 21:19). “A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping” (Prov. 19:13).
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Saviour. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
That a Christ-centered marriage means an always peaceful marriage. That good, church-going husbands and wives should not encounter discord. The truth? It is absolutely OK to argue within a Christian marriage.
having a difficult and contrary disposition. “"a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers” synonyms: crotchety, ornery ill-natured. having an irritable and unpleasant disposition.
tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome: a contentious crew. causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy: contentious issues.
contentious (adj.)
1500, "quarrelsome, apt to contend," from Latin contentiosus "obstinate, quarrelsome," from contentionem (nominative contentio) "a vigorous struggling, a contest, a fight," noun of action from past-participle stem of contendere (see contend). Related: Contentiously; contentiousness.
Opposite of causing, or likely to cause, an argument or controversy. noncontroversial. safe. uncontroversial. uncontentious.
Policing is a contentious issue for nationalists, and despite recent reforms, many continue to regard the (new) police force with suspicion. The question of when and under what circumstances a child should be held back in school remains a contentious issue.
Contentious communication style.
Communicators using a contentious style of communication are often described as being argumentative. People who use this style are not afraid to challenge others, especially if they have evidence to support their position.
adjective. A contentious issue causes a lot of disagreement or arguments.
quarrelsome stresses an ill-natured readiness to fight without good cause. contentious implies perverse and irritating fondness for arguing and quarreling.
Contending means being passionate about protecting a truth or cause; contentious means you like to argue or create controversy with people.