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Definition: Disputative |
DisputativeAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disputative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1759. (references) |
Etymology: Disputative \Dis*put"a*tive\, adjective. [Latin expression disputativus.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: DisputativeSynonyms: contentious (adj), disputatious (adj), litigious (adj). (additional references) |
| "Disputative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Disputative" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "disputative": argumentative contentious disputatious disputative litigious. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-p-s-t-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: aptitudes, auditives, vastitude. | |
-3 letters: aptitude, auditive, putative, situated, vitiated, vitiates. | |
-4 letters: datives, dauties, dispute, ditties, patties, pietist, puttied, putties, situate, spatted, spaviet, spitted, stative, statued, tidiest, updates, updives, upstate, uveitis, visited, vistaed, vitiate. | |
-5 letters: adepts, adieus, advise, aptest, astute, audits, dative, dautie, davies, davits, divest, duties, duvets, pasted, pastie, patted, pattie, paused, pavise, petsai. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 70 75 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)01000100 01101001 01110011 01110000 01110101 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s p u t a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0070 0075 0074 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3875858287866786758871 |
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