'Disputatious' definitions:
Definition of 'disputatious'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; "a style described as abrasive and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a litigious and acrimonious spirit" [syn: contentious, combative, disputatious, disputative, litigious]
Definition of 'Disputatious'
From: GCIDE
- Disputatious \Dis`pu*ta"tious\, a. Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper. [1913 Webster]
- The Christian doctrine of a future life was no recommendation of the new religion to the wits and philosophers of that disputations period. --Buckminster. -- {Dis`pu*ta"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Dis`pu*ta"tious*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'disputatious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aggressive,
- argumental,
- argumentative,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bickering,
- cat-and-dog,
- cat-and-doggish,
- combative,
- complaining,
- contentious,
- controversial,
- dialectic,
- disputing,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- divisive,
- eristic,
- factional,
- factious,
- fractious,
- ill-humored,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- litigious,
- logomachic,
- noncooperative,
- objecting,
- obstructive,
- on the barricades,
- partisan,
- pilpulistic,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- polemical,
- pro and con,
- proof against,
- protesting,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- reluctant,
- renitent,
- repellent,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- resistive,
- retardant,
- retardative,
- scrappy,
- shrewish,
- uncooperative,
- unsubmissive,
- unyielding,
- up in arms,
- withstanding,
- wrangling