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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
factious \fac"tious\ a. l. factiosus: cf. f. factieux.
1. given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise
dissensions, in opposition to government or the common
good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public
measures or men; -- said of persons.
1913 webster
factious for the house of lancaster. --shak.
1913 webster
2. pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction;
indicating, or characterized by, faction; -- said of acts
or expressions; as, factious quarrels.
1913 webster
headlong zeal or factious fury. --burke.
-- fac"tiously, adv. -- fac"tiousness, n.
1913 webster
see also:
fac"tiously fac"tiousness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
factious
adj : dissenting especially dissenting with the majority opinion
syn: dissentious, divisive
see also:
dissentious divisive
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
51 moby thesaurus words for "factious":
aggressive, alienated, argumentative, at loggerheads, at odds,
bellicose, belligerent, bickering, breakaway, combative,
conflicting, contending, contentious, contumacious, disaffected,
discordant, disputatious, divisive, eristic, estranged, extreme,
extremistic, factional, fighting, insurgent, insurrectionary,
irascible, irritable, litigious, mutineering, mutinous, partisan,
polarizing, polemic, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rebel, rebellious,
refractory, revolutional, revolutionary, riotous, seditionary,
seditious, shrewish, subversive, traitorous, treasonable,
turbulent, warring, wrangling
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