contentious
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *tend-der. Proto-Italic *tendō Latin tendō Latin contendō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin contentiō Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-der. Latin -ōsus Latin contentiōsus Middle French contentieux English contentious From Middle French contentieux, from Latin contentiōsus (“quarrelsome, perverse”), from contentiō (“contention”), from contendere, past participle contentus (“to contend”). Equivalent to English contention + -ous.
- derived from contention + -ous
Definitions
Marked by heated arguments or controversy.
- Ukraine, however, will complain long and hard about a contentious second-half incident when Marko Devic's shot clearly crossed the line before it was scrambled away by John Terry, only for the officials to remain unmoved.
Given to struggling with others out of jealousy or discord.
- She was not a contentious person as the Other had been; she did not argue and contradict everything I said.
The neighborhood
- neighborcontend
- neighborcontender
- neighborcontention
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at contentious. 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 contentious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at contentious
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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