Factious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              Factious for the house of Lancaster.  --Shak.
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     2. Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction;
        indicating, or characterized by, faction; -- said of acts
        or expressions; as, factious quarrels.
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              Headlong zeal or factious fury.       --Burke.
        -- {Fac"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Fac"tious*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  factious
       adj : dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)
             [syn: {dissentious}, {divisive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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