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having a chip one's shoulder synonyms

Trying to find another word for having a chip one's shoulder in English? No problem. Our thesaurus contains synonyms of having a chip one's shoulder in 17 different contexts. We have listed all the similar and related words for having a chip one's shoulder alphabetically.

  • aggressive
  • antagonistic
  • ardent
  • at loggerheads
  • battling
  • bellicose
  • cantankerous
  • combative
  • contentious
  • fierce
  • fighting
  • flip
  • have a bone to pick
  • have chip on shoulder
  • have it in for
  • hostile
  • hot
  • hot-tempered
  • mean
  • militant
  • on the outs
  • ornery
  • pugnacious
  • quarrelsome
  • scrappy
  • truculent
  • warlike
  • antagonistic
  • bellicose
  • belligerent
  • cantankerous
  • contentious
  • cussed
  • energetic
  • fire-eating
  • gladiatorial
  • hawkish
  • militant
  • ornery
  • pugnacious
  • quarrelsome
  • ructious
  • scrappy
  • strenuous
  • trigger-happy
  • truculent
  • warlike
  • warring
  • antagonistic
  • argumentative
  • belligerent
  • combative
  • disagreeable
  • factious
  • perverse
  • petulant
  • querulous
  • testy
  • adverse
  • anti
  • antipathetic
  • antipodal
  • antipodean
  • antithetical
  • balky
  • clashing
  • conflicting
  • contradictory
  • contrariant
  • contumacious
  • converse
  • counter
  • diametric
  • discordant
  • dissentient
  • dissident
  • froward
  • headstrong
  • hostile
  • inconsistent
  • inimical
  • insubordinate
  • intractable
  • negative
  • nonconforming
  • nonconformist
  • obstinate
  • arguable
  • argumentative
  • contended
  • contentious
  • contestable
  • controvertible
  • debateable
  • disputable
  • disputatious
  • disputed
  • doubtable
  • doubtful
  • dubious
  • dubitable
  • in dispute
  • litigious
  • moot
  • open to discussion
  • open to question
  • polemical
  • questionable
  • suspect
  • uncertain
  • under discussion
  • cantankerous
  • captious
  • caviling
  • contentious
  • controversial
  • dissentious
  • litigious
  • polemical
  • pugnacious
  • quarrelsome
  • alienated
  • belligerent
  • contending
  • contentious
  • contumacious
  • disaffected
  • disputatious
  • dissident
  • divisive
  • estranged
  • fighting
  • hostile
  • insubordinate
  • insurgent
  • insurrectionary
  • litigious
  • malcontent
  • mutinous
  • partisan
  • quarrelsome
  • rebellious
  • refractory
  • rival
  • sectarian
  • seditious
  • troublemaking
  • tumultous/tumultuous
  • turbulent
  • belligerent
  • combative
  • contentious
  • contrary
  • controversial
  • disputatious
  • factious
  • having a chip on one's shoulder
  • litigious
  • opinionated
  • pugnacious
  • quarrelsome
  • salty
  • scrappy
  • spiky
  • touchy
  • belligerent
  • combative
  • contentious
  • contrary
  • controversial
  • disputatious
  • factious
  • fire-eating
  • litigious
  • opinionated
  • pugnacious
  • quarrelsome
  • salty
  • scrappy
  • spiky
  • touchy
  • argumentative
  • belligerent
  • combative
  • contentious
  • disputable
  • adamant
  • arbitrary
  • assertive
  • biased
  • bigoted
  • bossy
  • bullheaded
  • cocksure
  • cocky
  • conceited
  • dictatorial
  • doctrinaire
  • dogmatic
  • hard-line
  • high-handed
  • inflexible
  • intransigent
  • locked in
  • obdurate
  • obstinate
  • one-sided
  • oracular
  • overbearing
  • pigheaded
  • positive
  • pragmatic
  • pragmatical
  • prejudiced
  • self-assertive
  • aggressive
  • antagonistic
  • argumentative
  • bellicose
  • brawling
  • cantankerous
  • chip on shoulder
  • choleric
  • combative
  • contentious
  • defiant
  • disputatious
  • have a bone to pick
  • hot-tempered
  • irascible
  • irritable
  • itching to fight
  • militant
  • petulant
  • pushing
  • pushy
  • quarrelsome
  • ready to fight
  • rebellious
  • salty
  • scrappy
  • self-assertive
  • truculent
  • warlike
  • argumentative
  • bad-tempered
  • bellicose
  • belligerent
  • brawling
  • cantankerous
  • cat-and-dog
  • choleric
  • churlish
  • combative
  • contentious
  • crabby
  • cross
  • disputatious
  • dissentious
  • excitable
  • fiery
  • fractious
  • gladiatorial
  • hasty
  • have chip on shoulder
  • hotheaded
  • huffy
  • impassioned
  • irascible
  • irritable
  • litigious
  • ornery
  • passionate
  • acrid
  • alkaline
  • brackish
  • briny
  • highly flavored
  • oversalted
  • pungent
  • saliferous
  • saline
  • salt
  • salted
  • saltish
  • sour
  • aggressive
  • antagonistic
  • ardent
  • at loggerheads
  • battling
  • bellicose
  • cantankerous
  • combative
  • contentious
  • fierce
  • fighting
  • flip
  • have a bone to pick
  • have chip on shoulder
  • have it in for
  • hostile
  • hot
  • hot-tempered
  • mean
  • militant
  • on the outs
  • ornery
  • pugnacious
  • quarrelsome
  • truculent
  • warlike
  • annoying
  • biting
  • caustic
  • cutting
  • galling
  • hard to take
  • hateful
  • hurtful
  • nasty
  • rough
  • rubbing the wrong way
  • sharp
  • unpleasant
  • bad-tempered
  • bundle of nerves
  • cantankerous
  • captious
  • choleric
  • crabbed
  • cranky
  • cross
  • delicate
  • dicey
  • grouchy
  • grumpy
  • hazardous
  • hypersensitive
  • irascible
  • irritable
  • jumpy
  • mean
  • ornery
  • oversensitive
  • peevish
  • perturbable
  • pettish
  • petulant
  • precarious
  • querulous
  • quick-tempered
  • risky
  • sensitive

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