Meaning of FACTIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'fakshus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) |
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| | Synonyms: | | discordant, dissentious, divisive |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
Factious for the house of Lancaster. --Shak.
2. Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction;
indicating, or characterized by, faction; -- said of acts
or expressions; as, factious quarrels.
Headlong zeal or factious fury. --Burke.
-- {Fac"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Fac"tious-ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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