Word Meanings - STRIFEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Contentious; discordant. The ape was strifeful and ambitious. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to STRIFEFUL)

• CONTENTIOUS
  Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed
• AMBITIOUSNESS
  The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.
• DISCORDANT
  discordant, F. discordant, p. pr. of discorder, OF. also, descorder. 1. Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce.
• AMBITIOUS
  1. Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man. Shak. 2. Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• STRIFEFUL
  Contentious; discordant. The ape was strifeful and ambitious. Spenser.
• AMBITIOUSLY
  In an ambitious manner.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.