Usually means: Causing or inclined to cause dissension.
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  1. factious: Merriam-Webster
  2. factious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. factious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. factious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. factious: Vocabulary.com
  6. factious: Wordnik
  7. factious: Wiktionary
  8. factious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. factious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. factious: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Factious, factious: Dictionary.com
  12. factious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Factious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. factious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. factious: Rhymezone
  16. Factious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. factious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. factious: FreeDictionary.org
  19. factious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. factious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. factious: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. factious: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (factious)

▸ adjective:  Of, pertaining to, or caused by factions.
▸ adjective:  Given to or characterized by discordance or insubordination.

Similar:
divisive, dissentious, discordant, factional, fusarial, feudalistic, sectarian, feudal, fideistic, factial, more...

Opposite:
united, harmonious, cohesive, unified

Types:
factitious, more...

Adjectives:
rash, bold, rival, great, political, soidisant, few, fanciful, such, different, unreasonable
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Similar:
divisive, dissentious, discordant, factional, fusarial, feudalistic, sectarian, feudal, fideistic, factial, more...

Opposite:
united, harmonious, cohesive, unified

Types:
factitious, more...

Adjectives:
rash, bold, rival, great, political, soidisant, few, fanciful, such, different, unreasonable



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