Rhyme Dictionary

Rhymes with “Contentious”

♬50 rhyming words found

🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Contentious"

4 words

These words rhyme exactly with "contentious" — same ending sound.

Word	Syllables	Definition
conscientious	4	Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance; painstaking.
pretentious	3	Motivated by an inappropriate, excessive, or unjustified desire to impress others.
unpretentious	4	Simple, humble, not pretentious, plain.
tendentious	3	(of persons or their words) Having a tendency, written or spoken, with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one; implicitly or explicitly slanted; biased.

🎵 Near Rhymes for "Contentious"

46 words

These words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.

Word	Syllables	Type	Definition
audacious	3		Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
portentous	3		Of momentous or ominous significance.
clandestine	3		Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
contention	3	noun	Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle.
relentless	3		Unremitting, steady and persistent.
impressive	3		Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress.
ambitious	3		(of a person or their character) Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction.
tremendous	3		Notable for its size, power, or excellence.
deception	3	noun	An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.
aggressive	3	noun	Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
momentous	3		Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.
consensus	3	noun	General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each member of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action.
licentious	3		Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct; sexually unprincipled.
inventive	3		Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing.
dissension	3	noun	Strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.
stupendous	3		Astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.
awareness	3	noun	The state or quality of being aware of something.
vengeance	2	noun	Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
capacious	3		Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
tension	2	noun	The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other.
apprentice	3	noun	A trainee, especially in a skilled trade.
collection	3	noun	A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
endless	2		Having no end.
inauspicious	4		Not auspicious; ill-omened.
sentence	2	noun	(grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using e.g. the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
dimension	3	noun	A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth.
invention	3	noun	Something invented.
objection	3	noun	A statement expressing opposition, or a reason or cause for expressing opposition (generally followed by the adposition to).
attention	3	noun	(uncountable) Mental focus.
jealous	2	verb	Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.
mention	2	verb	A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner.
breathless	2		Having difficulty breathing; gasping.
census	2	noun	An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
infectious	3		(pathology, typically of a person) Able to infect others; capable of transmitting pathogens.
rebellious	3		Showing rebellion.
freshness	2	noun	The state or quality of being fresh.
intentions	3	noun	A course of action that a person intends to follow.
offenses	3	noun	The act of offending.
sexist	2	noun	Unfairly discriminatory against one sex in favour of the other.
professes	3	verb	(ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.
benches	2	noun	A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.
tenses	2	noun	(linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
contentions	3	noun	Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle.
memphis	2	noun	The largest city in Tennessee, United States, and the county seat of Shelby County.
precious	2	noun	Of high value or worth.
texas	2	noun	A state in the south-central region of the United States. Capital: Austin. Largest city: Houston.