Controversial

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Controversial \Con`tro*ver"sial\, a. [Cf. LL. controversialis.]
     Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious;
     polemical; as, controversial divinity.
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           Whole libraries of controversial books.  --Macaulay.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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" [ant: {uncontroversial}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "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