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Meanings of
disputative
in English
Inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits.
contentious
combative
litigious
disputatious
Related terms
argumentative
Synonyms
Examples for "
contentious
"
contentious
combative
litigious
disputatious
Examples for "
contentious
"
1
It passed
contentious
legislation earlier this year - the Metadata Retention Law.
2
However, any objective view of history makes this an endlessly
contentious
exercise.
3
Yet in this year's
contentious
Republican debate season, that's exactly what's happened.
4
The question of alternatives to SF6 has been
contentious
over recent years.
5
However, Malema's right-hand-man also used a
highly
-
contentious
term in his stinging retort.
1
Photo: Supplied The near-daily media briefings on Covid-19 often started out
combative
.
2
At a
combative
press conference, Blatter said he was unafraid of arrest.
3
His government could also be more
combative
with U.S. President Donald Trump.
4
That wasn't to say he was slow-witted or
combative
;
he was neither.
5
His charmingly
combative
relationship also lightens the mood in really murdery situations.
1
Nintendo is normally
litigious
,
but this response felt extreme, even for them.
2
Their office is to endeavour to prevent
litigious
suits, and conciliate differences.
3
You would become as
litigious
and as unintelligible as our friend Stradling.'
4
For a
litigious
,
quarrelsome, fighting animal, man is very fond of peace.
5
One is the
litigious
cupidity which causes the logjam of compensation court cases.
1
But the Corinthians also were full of
disputatious
curiosity and intellectual hauteur.
2
But he was possessed of an irascible temper, and was naturally
disputatious
.
3
Being a grammarian, he was probably of a
disputatious
turn of mind.
4
Even in repose there was about him something talkative and
disputatious
.
5
The
disputatious
person for this reason never makes a good friend.
Usage of
disputative
in English
1
A
disputative
galley-puller could have triumphed over him morally; a child physically.
2
At length the engineer was goaded to anger, he became
disputative
,
indignant, loquacious.
3
Then he had remembered Mrs James, and their
disputative
,
unexpectedly intimate conversation in her father's office.
4
"Me too," said Jerik, wanting to get into the game, now that High Priest Harshket seemed more
disputative
than angry.
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Frequent collocations
become disputative
disputative galley
more disputative
Disputative
through the time