Disputatious

Definition: Disputatious

Disputatious

Adjective

1. 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".

Date "disputatious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Synonyms: Disputatious

Synonyms: contentious (adj), disputative (adj), litigious (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discord	Quarrelsome, unpacific; gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious; factious; litigious, litigant; pettifogging.
Irascibility	Querulous, captious, moodish; quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious; pugnacious; (bellicose); cantankerous, exceptious; restiff; (perverse) a; churlish; (discourteous).
Reasoning,	Adjective: reasoning; Verb: rationalistic; argumentative, controversial, dialectic, polemical; discursory, discursive; disputatious; Aristotelian, eristic, eristical.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Disputatious

English words defined with "disputatious": argumentatively ♦ contentious ♦ disputatiously, disputative ♦ litigious. (references)

"Disputatious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Disputatious" is used about 11 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)	100%	11	106,044

Expression using "disputatious": argumentative contentious disputatious disputative litigious. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "disputatious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏مولع بالجدال. (various references)

Bulgarian		склонен да спори (argumentative, contradictious, controversial). (various references)

French		raisonneur. (various references)

German		streitsüchtig (aggressive, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, cantankerous, contentious, contentiously, litigious, pugnacious, pugnaciously, quarrelsome). (various references)

Greek		φιλόνικοσ (contentious, quarrelsome, scraper, scrappy, shrewish, stickler). (various references)

Hungarian		vitázni szerető, kötekedő (bilious, cantankerous, jocose, pugnacious, stroppy, testy, tetchy), bakafántoskodó. (various references)

Italian		polemico (argumentative, contentious, controversial, polemical). (various references)

Manx		jengleyragh (bickering, wrangling). (various references)

Pig Latin		isputatiousday

Portuguese		controvérsia (argumentation, contention, contest, controversy, difference, dispute, polemic). (various references)

Russian		любящий спорить (argumentative, contentious). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sporan (arguable, contentious, controversial, debatable, disputable, exceptionable, impugnable, moot, uncertain, vexed). (various references)

Spanish		disputable (disputable). (various references)

Swedish		stridslysten (bellicose, combative, contentious, controversial, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike). (various references)

Turkish		tartışmacı (debater, disputant, wrangler), kavgacı (aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, combatant, combative, contentious, disagreeable, fighter, litigious, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, ruffian, scrappy, spoiling for a fight, turbulent, warlike, wrangler). (various references)

Ukrainian		що любить сперечатися (argumentative). (various references)

Vietnamese		thích tranh luận, thích b� n cãi, hay lý sự. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "disputatious": disputatiously, disputatiousness, disputatiousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Disputatious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desputatious, dirputatious, disputacious, Disputationum, disputatous. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-o-p-s-s-t-t-u-u"
	-4 letters: adiposis, studious, utopists.
	-5 letters: adipous, dustups, outpass, outputs, outsits, putouts, studios, stupids, utopias, utopist.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-i-i-o-p-s-s-t-t-u-u"
	+2 letters: disputatiously.
	+4 letters: disputatiousness.
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