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/ˌdɪspjʊˈteɪʃəs/ · adjective
Of or relating to something that is in question as to its intent or value..
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."
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.
Use disputatious when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Disputatious means Of or relating to something that is in question as to its intent or value..
Common synonyms include argumentative, contentious, quarrelsome, agonistic.
Possible antonyms include conciliatory, pacific, peaceable.
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."
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