Meaning of CONTROVERSIAL
| Pronunciation: | | `kântru'vurshul
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| | Definition: | | [adj] marked by or capable of arousing controversy; "the issue of the death penalty is highly controversial"; "Rushdie's controversial book"; "a controversial decision on affirmative action" |
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| | Synonyms: | | arguable, contentious, debatable, disputable, disputed, moot, polemic, polemical |
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| | Antonyms: | | noncontroversial, uncontroversial | | |
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| | Definition: | | \Con`tro*ver"sial\, a. [Cf. LL. controversialis.]
Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious;
polemical; as, controversial divinity.
Whole libraries of controversial books. --Macaulay.
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| | Related Terms: | | arguable, argumental, argumentative, at issue, belligerent, cat-and-dog, cat-and-doggish, combative, confutable, conjectural, contentious, contestable, controvertible, debatable, deniable, dialectic, disputable, disputatious, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, eristic, factious, iffy, ill-humored, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, litigious, logomachic, mistakable, moot, open to doubt, open to question, pilpulistic, polemic, polemical, pro and con, problematic, provocative, quarrelsome, questionable, refutable, scrappy, speculative, suppositional, suspect, suspicious, unsettled |
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