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Disputatious
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What's The Definition Of Disputatious?
[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"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Disputatious: argumentative | contentious | disputative | litigious Related Terms | Find terms related to Disputatious: 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 See Also | Disputatious In Webster's Dictionary \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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