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Definition: Argumentative |
ArgumentativeAdjective1. Given to or characterized by argument; "an argumentative discourse"; "argumentative to the point of being cantankerous"; "an intelligent but argumentative child". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "argumentative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
| Antonym: unargumentative (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Reasoning, | Adjective: reasoning; Verb: rationalistic; argumentative, controversial, dialectic, polemical; discursory, discursive; disputatious; Aristotelian, eristic, eristical. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Argumentative |
| English words defined with "argumentative": Argumental ♦ Chop-logic ♦ Discursory ♦ sea lawyer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "argumentative": Rack. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "argumentative": Discursory. (references) |
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Screenplays | Your friend's a very argumentative fellow. (Bad Day at Black Rock; writing credit: Howard Breslin; Don McGuire) | |
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Giovani della Casa | I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Argumentative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.29% of the time. "Argumentative" is used about 141 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.29% | 140 | 26,789 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.71% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 141 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "argumentative": argumentative contentious disputatious disputative litigious. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "argumentative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | argumentues, me argumente, i argumentuar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مولع بالجدل (controversial), جدلي (controversial, dialectical, polemic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | склонен да спори (contradictious, controversial, disputatious), спорен (attackable, contentious, controversial, debatable, disputable, litigious, moot, outstanding, problematic), основан на доводи, заядлив (bellicose, captious, carping, combative, contradictious, contradictory, currish, doggish, mordant, nagging, peevish, provoking, spleenful, troublesome, vixenish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 争论 (Argue, Argued, Arguing, Augmentative, Contestation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | svárlivý (bellicose, belligerent, bitchy, cantankerous, contentious, quarrelsome, termagant), hašteřivý (cantankerous, contentious, quarrelsome, querulous, strident). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | raisonneur (arguer), ergoteur, chicanier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | streitsüchtig (aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, cantankerous, contentious, contentiously, disputatious, litigious, pugnacious, pugnaciously, quarrelsome), streitlustig (aggressiv, aggressive, belligerent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συζητήσιμοσ (arguable, controversial, debatable, disputable, moot), επιχειρηματολογικόσ, διαλεκτικόσ (dialectical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | וכוחי (contentious, controversial), וכח י. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | veszekedõs (petulant, wrangler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | suka menentang (perverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | polemico (contentious, controversial, disputatious, polemical), controverso (contentious, controversial, moot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 理屈っぽい , 理屈っぱい . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | りくつっぽい, りくっぱい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | chengleyragh (argue, jabber, talkative), arganeagh (arguer, contentious, debatable, remonstrative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | argumentativeay argumentativo, lógico (dialectic, logic, logical, logician, sequacious, straight, tenable), crítico (assailant, climacteric, critic, critical, crucial, reviewer, serious). (various references) дискуссионный. (various references) prepirački, polemički. (various references) argumentador, sujeto a discusión, discutidor (controversialist). (various references) kontroversiell (controversial, impugnable), debattlysten. (various references) ที่เกี่ยวกับการโต้แย้ง. (various references) tartışmayı seven, tartışmaya açık (arguable, questionable), tartışılır, münakaşacı (belligerent, controversial, controversialist), kanıt türünden, eleştirici (assailant, assailer, censorious, critic, critical, faultfinder, faultfinding, judicial, reviewer, uncomplimentary). (various references) jedilli, dawaly. (various references) спірний (arguable, contentious, controversial, debatable, deniable, disputable, eristic, impugnable, litigious, moot, outstanding, vexed), що любить сперечатися (disputatious), аргументований, логічний (clear, consequent, logical), доказовий (arguable, demonstrable, demonstrative, evidential, evidentiary, probative, probatory, provable, proveable, testimonial), дискусійний (controversial, debatable). (various references) thích tranh cãi, lôgíc (consequent), hay cãi lẽ để tranh cãi, có luận chứng, để tranh luận có lý. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "argumentative": argumentatively. (additional references) | |
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"Argumentative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arguementative, argumentitive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "argumentative" (pronounced Ä'rgyume"ntutiv) |
| 7 | -e" n t u t i v | preventative, representative, tentative, unrepresentative. |
| 5 | -t u t i v | anticompetitive, competitive, consultative, exploitative, noncompetitive, putative, rep, repetitive, uncompetitive. |
| 4 | -u t i v | accusative, acquisitive, additive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, causative, cognitive, commemorative, communicative, comparative, consecutive, conservative, contemplative, cumulative, curative, decorative, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, diminutive, dispositive, duplicative, evocative, executive, expletive, Federative, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, laxative, lucrative, narrative, negative, neoconservative, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, positive, prerogative, preservative, primitive, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, recuperative, relative, remunerative, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, superlative, talkative, ultraconservative, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, vituperative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collaborative, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-i-m-n-r-t-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: augmentative. | |
-2 letters: argumentive. | |
-3 letters: emarginate, maturating, ravagement, vegetarian. | |
-4 letters: argentite, argumenta, augmenter, emanative, germinate, gravitate, guarantee, integrate, magnetite, marginate, mattering, muttering, reanimate, reteaming, revetting, termagant, terminate, unaverage, variegate, vignetter. | |
-5 letters: aerating, agentive, ageratum, agminate, aigrette, amaretti, animater, anteater, antevert, antimere, argentum, argument, attainer, averment, averting, emigrant, emigrate, enigmata, ergative, everting, geminate, geniture, geranium, gnattier, gratinee. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-g-i-m-n-r-t-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: argumentatively. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 72 67 75 6D 65 6E 74 61 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-. --. ..- -- . -. - .- - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110010 01100111 01110101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r g u m e n t a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0072 0067 0075 006D 0065 006E 0074 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35847387797180866786758871 |
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