argumentative
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Latin arguō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-məntom Latin -mentum Latin argūmentum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin argūmentor Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Medieval Latin argūmentātīvusder. Middle English argumentatif English argumentative From Late Middle English argumentatif (“syllogistic, sophistic”), from Old French argumentatif, argumentative (modern French argumentatif (“argumentative”)) and Medieval Latin, Late Latin argūmentātīvus, from Latin argūmentātor + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives).
- derived from argūmentātor
- derived from argūmentātīvus
- derived from argumentatif
Definitions
Of or relating to argumentation
Of or relating to argumentation; specifically, presenting a logical argument or line of reasoning; argumentive, discursive.
- I proceed next to treat of the argumentative or reaſoning Part of a Diſcourſe. In whatever place, or on whatever ſubject one ſpeaks, this beyond doubt is of the greateſt conſequence.
Prone to argue or dispute.
- Your host was in his turn eloquent,—authoritative,—facetious,—argumentative,—precatory,—pathetic, above all, pertinacious.
The neighborhood
- neighborarguability
- neighborarguable
- neighborarguably
- neighborargue
- neighborarguer
- neighborargument
- neighborargumentary
- neighborargumentation
- neighborargumentive
- neighbornonargument
- neighbornonargumental
- neighbornonargumentative
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at argumentative. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at argumentative. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at argumentative
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA