arguers
Those who dispute
Arguers are people who argue—those engaged in dispute, debate, or making a case for a position.
The word can describe habitual quarrelers My parents were both arguers who thrived on conflict or simply participants in reasoned debate The arguers on both sides presented compelling evidence.
Those who argue formally
- panelistsDiscussion group members
- oratorsEloquent public speakers
- interlocutorsPeople talking together
- negotiatorsThose who arrange agreements
polemicists · sophists · logicians · discussants · forum · roundtable · parliamentarians · deliberation
Angry verbal dispute
- feudBitter ongoing rivalry
- hostilityAntagonistic disposition toward others
- antagonismActive opposition or hostility
- clashViolent disagreement or collision
discord · friction · animosity · strife · altercation · tension · wrangle · enmity
Experts in persuasive speech
- advocatesThose who support causes
- convincersThings that make believers
- influencersPeople with online sway
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
ethos · pathos · logos · credibility · appeal · compelling · cogent · assertive
debaters
Those who argue formally
- panelistsDiscussion group members
- oratorsEloquent public speakers
- interlocutorsPeople talking together
negotiators · polemicists · sophists · logicians · discussants · forum · roundtable · parliamentarians · deliberation · cross-examination
quarrel
Angry verbal dispute
- feudBitter ongoing rivalry
- hostilityAntagonistic disposition toward others
- antagonismActive opposition or hostility
clash · discord · friction · animosity · strife · altercation · tension · wrangle · enmity · confrontation
rhetoricians
Experts in persuasive speech
- advocatesThose who support causes
- convincersThings that make believers
- influencersPeople with online sway
eloquence · ethos · pathos · logos · credibility · appeal · compelling · cogent · assertive · conviction
- negativistspessimists, defeatists, doomers, doomsayers, negative Nellies
arguerspeacemakers
Those who resolve conflicts
peacekeepers · harmonizers · conciliators · mediators · reconcilers
arguersagreers
Those who concur
yes-men · listeners · accommodators · pushovers · capitulators
arguersmediators
Conflict resolution facilitators
arbitrators · negotiators · peacemakers · go-betweens · intermediaries
- argue like a married coupleDispute with familiar irritation
- argue outResolve through discussion
- argues like an old married coupleDisputes with practiced intimacy
- argued downReduced through persuasion
- argue downNegotiate a reduction
- argued like an old married coupleFought in familiar patterns