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Controversial

Controversial Meaning & Definition
Controversial Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Controversial?

[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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Controversial: arguable | contentious | debatable | disputable | disputed | moot | polemic | polemical

Related Terms | Find terms related to Controversial: 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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Controversial In Webster's Dictionary

\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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