Controversial

Quick meaning: Controversial is an adjective meaning Arousing or likely to arouse controversy.

Meaning

Arousing or likely to arouse controversy.

More Meanings

1. Engaging in or given to controversy; disputatious, argumentative.
2. (now rare) Someone or something (such as a matter or an argument) that is controversial.

Example Sentences

Whole libraries of controversial books.

Napoleon’s a pastry / Get this under your brow / All those big wig controversials / Are all commercials now.

No fundamental doctrine was omitted. Controversials were carefully avoided. Whether any blessing attended these attempts, will be known at the last day.

It would be interesting to know whether the leadership capacities with which the controversials are credited is a mitigating factor with respect to their risk potential.

Word Forms

• controversional
• controversials

Synonyms for controversial

Depending on context, synonyms include contentious, contested, moot, polemic, debatable, polemical.

Antonyms for controversial

Common opposites include incontrovertible, non-controversial, noncontroversial, uncontroversial.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include polemic, contentious, polemical, disputed, disputable, debatable.

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