disputatious

disputatious
Synonyms and related words:
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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  • Disputatious — Dis pu*ta tious, a. Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper. [1913 Webster] The Christian doctrine of a future life was no recommendation of the new religion to the wits and… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • disputatious — I adjective argumentative, bickering, cantankerous, captious, competitive, contentious, contrary, controversial, debatable, dialectic, discordant, discrepant, disputable, disputative, dissenting, dissentious, divided, fractious, hostile,… …   Law dictionary

  • disputatious — [adj] argumentative cantankerous, captious, caviling, contentious, controversial, dissentious, litigious, polemical, pugnacious, quarrelsome; concepts 401,542 Ant. agreeable, calm, peaceful …   New thesaurus

  • disputatious — ► ADJECTIVE 1) fond of argument. 2) (of an argument or situation) motivated by or causing strong opinions. DERIVATIVES disputatiously adverb disputatiousness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • disputatious — [dis pyo͞ot′ə tivdis΄pyo͞o tā′shəs] adj. inclined to dispute; fond of arguing; contentious: also disputative [dis pyo͞ot′ə tiv] disputatiously adv. disputatiousness n …   English World dictionary

  • Disputatious — Wikipedia does not have an encyclopedia article for Disputatious (search results). You may want to read Wiktionary s entry on disputatious instead.wiktionary:Special:Search/disputatious …   Wikipedia

  • disputatious — disputatiously, adv. disputatiousness, n. /dis pyoo tay sheuhs/, adj. fond of or given to disputation; argumentative; contentious: disputatious litigants. Also, disputative /di spyooh teuh tiv/. [1650 60; DISPUTATI(ON) + OUS] * * * …   Universalium

  • disputatious — adjective Date: 1660 1. a. inclined to dispute b. marked by disputation 2. provoking debate ; controversial • disputatiously adverb • disputatiousness …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • disputatious — adjective a) Of or relating to something that is in question as to its value or intent. b) Inclined to argue or debate; provoking debate. Syn: argumentative, contentious, quarrelsome …   Wiktionary

  • disputatious — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. contentious, argumentative, captious; see quarrelsome 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Given to arguing: argumentative, combative, contentious, eristic, litigious, polemic, polemical, quarrelsome, scrappy. See… …   English dictionary for students

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