Word Meanings - EMBROILMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil. Bp. Burnet.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EMBROILMENT)

• Quarrel
• Brawl
• altercation
• affray
• squabble
• feud
• tumult
• dispute
• wrangle
• variance
• disagreement
• misunderstanding
• hostility
• quarreling
• embroilment
• bickering
• broil

Related words: (words related to EMBROILMENT)

• WRANGLE
  An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation. Syn. -- Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See Altercation.
• QUARRELING
  Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar"rel*ing*ly, adv.
• BRAWLING
  1. Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak. 2. Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3. A brawling stream. J. S. Shairp.
• EMBROILMENT
  The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil. Bp. Burnet.
• TUMULTER
  A maker of tumults. He severely punished the tumulters. Milton.
• TUMULTUARILY
  In a tumultuary manner.
• MISUNDERSTANDER
  One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.
• TUMULTUARINESS
  The quality or state of being tumultuary.
• MISUNDERSTANDING
  1. Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception. Bacon. 2. Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.
• QUARRELLOUS
  Quarrelsome. Shak.
• BROILING
  Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun. -- n.
• SQUABBLE
  1. To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel. 2. To debate peevishly; to dispute. The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should
• WRANGLER
  1. An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness. "Noisy and contentious wranglers." I. Watts. 2. One of those who stand in the first rank of honors in the University of Cambridge, England. They are called, according to their rank,
• DISPUTER
  One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist. Where is the disputer of this world 1 Cor. i. 20.
• BRAWLER
  One that brawls; wrangler. Common brawler , one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.
• VARIANCE
  A disagreement or difference between two parts of the same legal proceeding, which, to be effectual, ought to agree, -- as between the writ and the declaration, or between the allegation and the proof. Bouvier. A variance, in disagreement; in a
• QUARRELSOME
  Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric. Syn. -- Pugnacious; irritable; irascible; brawling; choleric; fiery; petulant. -- Quar"rel*some*ly, adv. -- Quar"rel*some*ness,
• SQUABBLER
  One who squabbles; a contentious person; a brawler.
• TUMULTUARY
  1. Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous. "A tumultuary conflict." Eikon Basilike. A tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry. Macaulay. Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish. De Quincey. 2. Restless;
• MISUNDERSTAND
  To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
• DISEMBROIL
  To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.
• INDISPUTED
  Undisputed.
• DISPUTE
  To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. (more info) from L. disputare, disputatum; dis- + putare to clean; hence, fig.,
• QUARREL
  Any small square or quadrangular member; as: A square of glass, esp. when set diagonally. A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square. A square or lozenge-shaped paving tile. 3. A glazier's
• INVARIANCE
  The property of remaining invariable under prescribed or implied conditions. J. J. Sylvester.