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Controversial

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of, producing, or marked by controversy: a controversial movie; a controversial stand on human rights.

adj. Fond of controversy; disputatious.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Arousing controversy—a debate or discussion of opposing opinions.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of or pertaining to controversy; characterized by or connected with disputation; disputatious: as, a controversial discourse.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. marked by or capable of arousing controversy

Word Usage

"The word controversial doesn't begin to describe this remarkably frank but profoundly disturbing book, which not only attempts to defend sex for pay, but insists it's preferable to romantic love."

Equivalent

debatable contentious moot polemic polemical

Antonym

noncontroversial uncontroversial

Cross Reference

questionable complaisant debatable controvertible disputatious

Form

controversialness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

disputatious polemical

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Herschel commercial inertial noncommercial noncontroversial

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

critical philosophical political educational influential