Dictionary

disputatious en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ˌdɪspjʊˈteɪʃəs/
• /ˌdɪspjəˈteɪʃəs/

Etymology

From disputation, equivalent to disputati(on) + -ous.

Meanings

1. Of or relating to something that is in question as to its intent or value.
2. Inclined to argue or debate; provoking debate.
   • 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." 1864, “Visit of King James to Oxford in 1605: Tobacologia: Date of ‘Macbeth’”, in Notes and Queries, page 301:
   • 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. 1868 October 20, John Lothrop Motley, Four Questions for the People, at the Presidential Election: Address of John Lothrop Motley, before the Parker Fraternity, at the Music Hall, October 20, 1868, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 4:

Forms

Antonyms

peaceable · conciliatory · pacific

Deriveds

disputatiousness · disputatiously · undisputatious

Synonyms

bellicose · factious · agonistic · quarrelsome · argumentative · rantankerous · squabbly · fratchety · fractious · strifeful · contentious · belligerent · disputative · fratchy · pettifogging · contentious · quarrelous · argumentative · bangsome · quarrelsome · logomachic · debateful · litigious · unpacific · disputatious · discordant

Translations (11)

de umstritten (relating to something that is in question) · de strittig (relating to something that is in question) · de kontrovers (relating to something that is in question) · tr dalaşkan (inclined to argue; provoking debate) · gd connspaideach (inclined to argue; provoking debate) · de bestritten (relating to something that is in question) · la contentiōsus (inclined to argue; provoking debate) · gd connsachail (inclined to argue; provoking debate) · de streitbar (inclined to argue; provoking debate) · tr kavgacı (inclined to argue; provoking debate) · de streitsüchtig (inclined to argue; provoking debate)