Meaning of DISPUTATIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | `dispyû'teyshus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; "a style described as abrasive and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a litigious and acrimonious spirit" |
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| | Synonyms: | | argumentative, contentious, disputative, litigious |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis`pu*ta"tious\, a.
Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert;
characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or
temper.
The Christian doctrine of a future life was no
recommendation of the new religion to the wits and
philosophers of that disputations period.
--Buckminster.
-- {Dis`pu*ta"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Dis`pu*ta"tious*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | aggressive, argumental, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, cat-and-dog, cat-and-doggish, combative, complaining, contentious, controversial, dialectic, disputing, dissentient, dissenting, divisive, eristic, factional, factious, fractious, ill-humored, irascible, irritable, litigious, logomachic, noncooperative, objecting, obstructive, on the barricades, partisan, pilpulistic, polarizing, polemic, polemical, pro and con, proof against, protesting, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, reluctant, renitent, repellent, resistant, resisting, resistive, retardant, retardative, scrappy, shrewish, uncooperative, unsubmissive, unyielding, up in arms, withstanding, wrangling |
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