Characterized by or prone to altercation; quarrelsome or disputatious.
From altercation plus -ive (suffix forming adjectives). Derived ultimately from Latin altercari (to dispute), this adjective describes something having the quality of argumentativeness.
This is a word that almost nobody uses—which is strange because describing someone as 'altercative' (prone to altercations) is much more cutting than calling them 'argumentative'!
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