'Controversial' definitions:
Definition of 'controversial'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Marked by or capable of arousing controversy; "the issue of the death penalty is highly controversial"; "Rushdie's controversial book"; "a controversial decision on affirmative action" [ant: noncontroversial, uncontroversial]
Definition of 'Controversial'
From: GCIDE
- Controversial \Con`tro*ver"sial\, a. [Cf. LL. controversialis.] Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity. [1913 Webster]
- Whole libraries of controversial books. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'controversial'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arguable,
- argumental,
- argumentative,
- at issue,
- belligerent,
- cat-and-dog,
- cat-and-doggish,
- combative,
- confutable,
- conjectural,
- contentious,
- contestable,
- controvertible,
- debatable,
- deniable,
- dialectic,
- disputable,
- disputatious,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- eristic,
- factious,
- iffy,
- ill-humored,
- in dispute,
- in doubt,
- in dubio,
- in question,
- litigious,
- logomachic,
- mistakable,
- moot,
- open to doubt,
- open to question,
- pilpulistic,
- polemic,
- polemical,
- pro and con,
- problematic,
- provocative,
- quarrelsome,
- questionable,
- refutable,
- scrappy,
- speculative,
- suppositional,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- unsettled