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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

factious
    adj 1: dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority
           opinion) [syn: dissentious, divisive, factious]

2. 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.
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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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Thesaurus Results for factious:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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