Polemical

3 definitions found

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

  Polemical \Po*lem"ic*al\, a.
     Polemic; controversial; disputatious. -- {Po*lem"ic*al*ly},
     adv.
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           Polemical and impertinent disputations.  --Jer. Taylor.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  polemical
       adj : of or involving dispute or controversy [syn: {polemic}]

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

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "polemical":
     aggressive, argumental, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent,
     bickering, cat-and-dog, cat-and-doggish, combative, contentious,
     controversial, dialectic, disputatious, divisive, eristic,
     factional, factious, ill-humored, irascible, irritable, litigious,
     logomachic, partisan, pilpulistic, polarizing, polemic,
     pro and con, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, shrewish,
     wrangling