polemical

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Related to argument or controversy; containing polemic, being polemic.
Being an attempt to evaluate the arguments comprehensively.
Prone to causing disputes; inclined to causing the expression of opposing opinions, disputatious, contentious, edgy.

noun

/pəˈlɛmɪkəl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-polemical.wav /pəˈlemɪkəl/

polemical more polemical most polemical polemicall polemicals

From polemic + -al. By surface analysis, polem- + -ic + -al.

nonpolemical overpolemical philopolemical polemically unpolemical

Catalan: polèmic Chinese Cantonese: 挑起爭端嘅 /挑起争端嘅 Chinese Mandarin: 好争论的 Esperanto: polemika Georgian: პოლემიკური German: polemisch

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