Synonyms for Contended:

• adj.

  •at issue (adjective)
  • controversial.
  •controversial (adjective)
  • most contestable,
  • most debateable,
  • more doubtable,
  • more contended,
  • more disputed,
  • more contestable,
  • more controvertible,
  • most contended,
  • most controvertible,
  • more debateable,
  • most disputed,
  • most doubtable.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • dubitable,
  • moot,
  • under discussion,
  • Controvertible,
  • open to question,
  • debateable,
  • open to discussion,
  • Doubtable,
  • open discussion,
  • contestable,
  • in dispute.

• v.

  •affirmed (verb)
  • set down,
  • asserted,
  • attested,
  • validated,
  • affirmed,
  • corroborated,
  • warranted,
  • maintained,
  • certified,
  • Avouched,
  • sustained,
  • Testified,
  • proclaimed,
  • Claimed,
  • pronounced,
  • pledged,
  • Adjured,
  • expressed,
  • Averred,
  • Propounded,
  • professed,
  • promised,
  • acknowledged,
  • stated,
  • admitted,
  • endorsed,
  • Submitted,
  • supported,
  • accepted,
  • verified,
  • assured,
  • declared,
  • ratified,
  • approved.
  •conflicted (verb)
  • Dissented,
  • Rowed,
  • collided,
  • Bickered,
  • feuded,
  • Differed,
  • Rioted,
  • Altercated,
  • Antagonized,
  • blasted,
  • Spared,
  • Brawled,
  • Clamored,
  • Conflicted,
  • broiled,
  • Squabbled,
  • Clashed,
  • Disagreed.
  •contended (verb)
  • Wrangled,
  • Confronted,
  • Struggled,
  • Defended,
  • hassled,
  • Vied,
  • Wrestled,
  • opposed,
  • Argued,
  • disputed,
  • Protested,
  • Encountered,
  • Quarreled,
  • Contrasted,
  • faced,
  • Stood,
  • Resisted,
  • Withstood.
  •disagreed (verb)
  • Defied,
  • Objected,
  • Challenged,
  • Demurred,
  • repudiated,
  • Complained,
  • rejected.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • oppose,
  • reason,
  • certifiable,
  • adapt,
  • tempest-swept,
  • push,
  • abroach,
  • strain,
  • grilled,
  • melt,
  • placate,
  • lenify,
  • jilted,
  • grappling iron,
  • grappling hook,
  • carry,
  • pass,
  • get down,
  • land,
  • fulfil,
  • goddamn,
  • campaign,
  • marked,
  • move,
  • kyphotic,
  • run away,
  • blessed,
  • corroborate,
  • generally,
  • cosset,
  • fence,
  • endeavor,
  • divided,
  • asseverate,
  • accomplished,
  • get by,
  • luckily,
  • disputation,
  • endure,
  • escape,
  • toughened,
  • fly the coop,
  • agitate,
  • protester,
  • gladiola,
  • fighting,
  • concede,
  • apprehended,
  • hunt down,
  • seriously,
  • squirm,
  • fight back,
  • disputable,
  • retained,
  • operate,
  • baby,
  • drop off,
  • range,
  • combat,
  • crookbacked,
  • pretend,
  • outpouring,
  • bunk,
  • political campaign,
  • avow,
  • jubilantly,
  • consort,
  • promptly,
  • objector,
  • thirstily,
  • doubtful,
  • hightail it,
  • grappler,
  • debark,
  • provide,
  • disport,
  • crookback,
  • fight down,
  • conciliate,
  • suit,
  • severally,
  • mollycoddle,
  • gentle,
  • make out,
  • proud of,
  • verbalized,
  • wriggle,
  • hunt,
  • lam,
  • rapturously,
  • press,
  • persist,
  • fill,
  • realised,
  • trial,
  • qualified,
  • header,
  • verify,
  • gladiolus,
  • running,
  • pander,
  • meted out,
  • turn over,
  • rill,
  • verbalised,
  • goddam,
  • draw,
  • rhapsodically,
  • streamlet,
  • so-called,
  • gibbous,
  • streak,
  • avowed,
  • acutely,
  • wrestling,
  • dealt out,
  • damned,
  • foe,
  • announce,
  • liberally,
  • debate,
  • realized,
  • contestation,
  • debatable,
  • go,
  • flow,
  • indicate,
  • put down,
  • featherbed,
  • darned,
  • broadly,
  • encircled,
  • in question,
  • gayly,
  • divert,
  • support,
  • repugn,
  • dissenter,
  • controversy,
  • infernal,
  • supply,
  • pamper,
  • parceled out,
  • test,
  • guide,
  • oblige,
  • turn tail,
  • loose,
  • spurned,
  • scrap,
  • manage,
  • grapnel,
  • hunchbacked,
  • track down,
  • defend,
  • swan,
  • unload,
  • sustain,
  • magisterial,
  • melt down,
  • cocker,
  • scat,
  • documented,
  • sword lily,
  • reconcile,
  • insist,
  • arguing,
  • grappling,
  • rival,
  • prevail,
  • free burning,
  • spoil,
  • luxuriate,
  • mollify,
  • work,
  • course,
  • hold,
  • sophisticated,
  • head for the hills,
  • coping,
  • meet,
  • tempest-tossed,
  • delicious,
  • announced,
  • engagement,
  • crusade,
  • imposing,
  • authenticated,
  • storm-tossed,
  • well-kept,
  • tempest-tost,
  • fulfill,
  • deliberate,
  • advance,
  • innovative,
  • extend,
  • beaming,
  • stratified,
  • coddle,
  • aver,
  • hand-to-hand struggle,
  • lead,
  • deuced,
  • divided up,
  • runnel,
  • ravel,
  • footrace,
  • tempered,
  • sky-high,
  • nominee,
  • gruntle,
  • on the loose,
  • write down,
  • race,
  • modern,
  • disembark,
  • pronto,
  • confess,
  • forward-looking,
  • as luck would have it,
  • ladder,
  • mirthfully,
  • argument,
  • black market,
  • uttered,
  • incline,
  • appreciated,
  • reach,
  • clamshell,
  • at large,
  • assuage,
  • consider,
  • in advance,
  • maintain,
  • running game,
  • pollyannaish,
  • discharge,
  • run for,
  • explicit,
  • foot race,
  • rivulet,
  • sanctioned,
  • make do,
  • shared out,
  • live up to,
  • opposition,
  • struggle,
  • adjudge,
  • arguable,
  • take to the woods,
  • conform to,
  • competitiveness,
  • doled out,
  • break away,
  • die hard,
  • fit,
  • postulate,
  • unravel,
  • munificently,
  • pleasantly,
  • blame,
  • place down,
  • dissident,
  • goddamned,
  • swear,
  • endeavour,
  • feed,
  • substantiate,
  • in earnest,
  • well-chosen,
  • prospect,
  • lief,
  • exultingly,
  • supposed,
  • grand,
  • broadly speaking,
  • twist,
  • damn,
  • tally,
  • conflict,
  • confirm,
  • fortuitously,
  • battle,
  • dubious,
  • sunnily,
  • kept up,
  • drop,
  • function,
  • felicitous,
  • be given,
  • ply,
  • upbeat,
  • admit,
  • campaigner,
  • deal,
  • slackly,
  • quell,
  • writhe,
  • lodge,
  • bleed,
  • tilt,
  • propitiate,
  • fain,
  • begrudge,
  • put forward,
  • foeman,
  • ripe,
  • grip,
  • lean,
  • humpbacked,
  • pacify,
  • scarper,
  • blamed,
  • worm,
  • play,
  • stay,
  • sworn,
  • execute,
  • tend,
  • running play,
  • hardened.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • proposed,
  • joyously,
  • considered,
  • animatedly,
  • supervised,
  • contentedly,
  • Emulated,
  • bedded,
  • happy,
  • buffeted,
  • delightfully,
  • cheerily,
  • contender,
  • shared,
  • Combated,
  • Raced,
  • Managed,
  • dispensed,
  • contend,
  • Cared,
  • compete,
  • zealously,
  • Lotted,
  • cheerful,
  • readily,
  • conducted,
  • accommodate,
  • recognised,
  • Weighed,
  • vie,
  • apportioned,
  • ardently,
  • Discussed,
  • jovially,
  • Insisted,
  • Indicated,
  • Discerned,
  • humped,
  • earnestly,
  • fight,
  • cheerfully,
  • happily,
  • emulate,
  • gleefully,
  • Screwed,
  • Administered,
  • indulge,
  • Grappled,
  • cater,
  • contestant,
  • challenger,
  • handled,
  • festively,
  • exhilaratingly,
  • generously,
  • profess,
  • Quarrelled,
  • necked,
  • openly,
  • pleased,
  • Rivaled,
  • jazzed,
  • Battled,
  • delightedly,
  • advanced,
  • run,
  • keenly,
  • fucked,
  • Warred,
  • traded,
  • contested,
  • invigoratingly,
  • addressed,
  • completed,
  • strive,
  • loved,
  • Elatedly,
  • scrambled,
  • Coped,
  • Rivalled,
  • fenced,
  • distinguished,
  • distributed,
  • cope,
  • treated,
  • wrestle,
  • gripped,
  • rivalry,
  • delightful,
  • amuse,
  • resent,
  • contest,
  • Deliberated,
  • enthusiastically,
  • played,
  • excitingly,
  • surrounded,
  • fortunately,
  • assert,
  • glad,
  • alleged,
  • loosely,
  • satisfy,
  • gaily,
  • Debated,
  • comprehended,
  • allotted,
  • Palisaded,
  • blissfully,
  • pleasant,
  • gladly,
  • affirm,
  • bonked,
  • Scuffled,
  • competition,
  • appease,
  • candidate,
  • Issued,
  • Superintended,
  • independently,
  • took part,
  • enemy,
  • Postulated,
  • gratify,
  • broached,
  • Competed,
  • exultantly,
  • competitor,
  • covered,
  • declare,
  • argue,
  • joyfully,
  • blithely,
  • recognized,
  • freely,
  • wangled,
  • Banged,
  • walled,
  • grapple,
  • ecstatically,
  • contention,
  • felicitously,
  • eagerly,
  • escaped,
  • merrily.

Paraphrases for Contended:

• Independent

  • Verb, past tense
    conceded, Seconded, concluded, considered, Indicated, collaborated, Defended, Responded, acknowledged, pretended, Concurred, countered, contest, contested, Complained, asserted, conducted, suggested, continued, complemented, Argued, predicted, Attributed, Commented, noted, Contributed, demonstrated, alleged, Opined, Cited, intended, underscored, confirmed, Insisted, contented, notice, notices, characterized, declared, perceived, recognized, Mended, reported, endorsed, estimated, found, Denied, credited, Postulated, Cautioned, identified, Convened, Incited, Mentioned, Challenged, Believed, disputed, Testified, conveyed, Invoked, Deemed, accepted, ascertained, admitted, pointed, Proceeded, Stood, Claimed, nominated, emphasised, Reiterated, proclaimed, Explained, advance, advanced, advances, emphasized, Regarded, articulated, Persisted, Stipulated, included, advised, said, attested, determined, felt, pronounced, Inflicted, affirm, affirmed, sustained, retained, referenced, Enunciated, Questioned, empowered, invited, pledged, underlined, Extracted, Warned, outlined, triggered, Told, support, supported, advice, reaffirmed, Objected, objects, purported, presented, Inserted, Viewed, engaged, reassured, thought, welcomed, showcase, Progressed, Upheld, Supplemented, touched, Nurtured, facilitated, Averred, Urged, opinions, selon, Accounted, move, moved, forwards, Forwarded, highlighted, Provided, maintained, opinion, informed, observed, Relied, professed, reasoned, voiced, stressed, funded, Bolstered, precised, Pleaded, Pled, Prompted, Submitted, submits, agreed, held, Wrote, Filed, stuck, Referred, elaborated, Offered, Remarked, Promoted, sought, Answered, Judged, led, Helped, assured, Replied, Lobbied, added, sponsored, Arose, ruled, saw, favored, expressed, Pushed, Remained, signalled, loved, stirred, Carried, stated, Appealed, Stayed, aroused, revealed, Favoured, listed, called, spoke, clarified, tabled, Lasted, Brought, Went, lifted, put, remembered, backed, wanted, paid, Flagged, keeping, kept, Gave, Had, Ran, raised, named, made.
  • Verb, past participle
    Confronted, Indicated, Advocated, Defended, Contradicted, acknowledged, pretended, contested, Complained, asserted, Communicated, suggested, continued, complemented, Argued, noted, Disagreed, demonstrated, alleged, intended, underscored, confirmed, Insisted, described, face, faced, declared, reported, endorsed, Posited, Adduced, Postulated, identified, assumed, Mentioned, Challenged, disputed, Invoked, supposed, disclosed, pointed, Stood, Claimed, encouraged, emphasised, Explained, advanced, emphasized, subscribed, advised, said, Espoused, determined, felt, pronounced, affirmed, sustained, Championed, Exercised, Quoted, Questioned, reflected, illustrated, pledged, Warned, outlined, impeded, Told, supported, reaffirmed, Objected, Emerged, engaged, Debated, campaigned, financed, Progressed, Upheld, safeguarded, charged, Nurtured, facilitated, Urged, moved, specified, accompanied, highlighted, maintained, observed, Relied, professed, joined, implied, resolved, voiced, stressed, Bolstered, leveraged, Underpinned, Pleaded, Submitted, enhanced, Enshrined, held, pursued, elaborated, Promoted, sought, Helped, assured, Abetted, sponsored, Shown, drawn, ruled, expressed, assisted, Borne, Buoyed, Pushed, signalled, fuelled, stated, sworn, driven, aided, Favoured, spoken, fostered, listed, tails, tried, Impugned, Meant, taken, gone, Brought, backed, done, Had, made.