Disputatious

3 definitions found

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

  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
           philosophers of that disputations period.
                                                    --Buckminster.
     -- {Dis`pu*ta"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Dis`pu*ta"tious*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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" [syn: {contentious},
             {disputative}, {litigious}]

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

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "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