controversial
Meaning of controversial
adjective
- giving rise or likely to give rise to controversy or public disagreement.
years of wrangling over a controversial bypass
late 16th century: from late Latin controversialis, from controversia (see controversy).
Information about controversial
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of controversial
con-tro-ver-sial
- It consists of 4 syllables and 13 chars.
- controversial is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
controversial synonyms
Meaning causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial:
Meaning argue about (something):
Meaning struggle to surmount (a difficulty):
Meaning subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty:
Meaning not established as a fact, and so open to question or debate:
Meaning open to discussion or argument:
Meaning open to disagreement; not obviously correct:
Meaning (of a problem or issue) difficult and much debated; problematic:
Meaning expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one:
Meaning arousing or able to arouse intense feeling:
Meaning quick to detect or respond to slight changes, signals, or influences:
Meaning requiring sensitive or careful handling:
Meaning needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand:
Meaning causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with:
Meaning constituting or presenting a problem:
controversial antonyms
Meaning not controversial:
Meaning not likely to cause offence or disagreement and somewhat dull:
Translation of controversial
- German: kontrovers, umstritten
- French: controversable, controversé
- Spanish: controvertido, controvertida, controversial
- Italian: controverso
- Portuguese: controverso
Words that rhyme with controversial
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