Disputatious

Quick meaning: Disputatious is an adjective meaning Of or relating to something that is in question as to its intent or value.

Meaning

Of or relating to something that is in question as to its intent or value.

More Meanings

1. Inclined to argue or debate; provoking debate.

Example Sentences

Certainly there have been bitterly contested elections in this country before. Party spirit is always rife, and in such vivid, excitable, disputatious communities as ours are, and I trust always will be, it is the very soul of freedom.

He was followed by a disputatious gentleman, who had the temerity to maintain before the royal misocapnist (the Counterblast had not as yet issued from the monarch's lips, but his anti-nicotian prejudices were well known,) the thesis, that "tobacco must needs be good;" proceeding to his proof "by enumeration or induction, because Kings, Princes, Nobles, Earles, Lords, Knights, Gentlemen of all Countries and Nations, reckoning a number, loved it."

Synonyms for disputatious

Depending on context, synonyms include argumentative, contentious, quarrelsome, agonistic, bangsome, bellicose.

Antonyms for disputatious

Common opposites include conciliatory, pacific, peaceable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disputative, contentious, argumentative, litigious, eristic, contentional.

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