controversial as an adjective: - 1
controversial
adjective
1 controversial
Marked by or capable of arousing controversy.
Roget 476:
reasoning
etc.
v.;
rationalistic;
argumentative,
controversial,
dialectic,
polemical;
discursory†,
discursive;
disputatious;
Aristotelian†,
eristic†,
eristical†.
debatable,
controvertible.
logical;
relevant
etc.
23.
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Roget 713:
discordant;
disagreeing
etc.
v.;
out of tune,
ajar,
on bad terms,
dissentient
etc.
489;
unreconciled,
unpacified;
contentious
etc.
720.
quarrelsome,
unpacific†;
gladiatorial,
controversial,
polemic,
disputatious;
factious;
litigious,
litigant;
pettifogging.
at odds,
at loggerheads,
at daggers drawn,
at variance,
at issue,
at cross purposes,
at sixes and sevens,
at feud,
at high words;
up in arms,
together by the ears,
in hot water,
embroiled.
torn,
disunited.
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Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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