controversial
adj/ˌkɒn.tɹəˈvɜː.ʃəl/UK/ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/US/ˌkɔn.tɹəˈvɜː.ʃəl/
Etymology
From Latin contrōversiālis, from contrōversia + -ālis. By surface analysis, controversy + -al.
- borrowed from contrōversiālis
Definitions
Arousing or likely to arouse controversy.
- Whole libraries of controversial books.
Engaging in or given to controversy
Engaging in or given to controversy; disputatious, argumentative.
Someone or something (such as a matter or an argument) that is controversial.
- No fundamental doctrine was omitted. Controversials were carefully avoided. Whether any blessing attended these attempts, will be known at the last day.
- Napoleon’s a pastry / Get this under your brow / All those big wig controversials / Are all commercials now.
The neighborhood
- synonymcontentious
- synonymcontested
- antonymincontrovertible
- antonymnon-controversial
- antonymnoncontroversial
- antonymuncontroversial
- neighborcontroversialist
- neighborcontroversiality
- neighborcontroversy
- neighborcontrovert
- neighborcontroverter
- neighborcontrovertible
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA