Synonyms for Controversial:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • controversial.
  •arguable (adjective)
  • un-sure,
  • un sure.
  •argumentative (adjective)
  • polemical,
  • spikier,
  • polemic,
  • fire-eating,
  • Eristic,
  • spikiest,
  • disputatious,
  • spiky,
  • scrappy,
  • fire eating,
  • opinionated,
  • having a chip on one's shoulder,
  • salty.
  •at issue (adjective)
  • in dispute,
  • uncertain,
  • debateable,
  • open to discussion,
  • argumentative,
  • dubious,
  • doubtful,
  • dubitable,
  • under discussion,
  • disputed,
  • Contended,
  • suspect,
  • Doubtable,
  • moot,
  • litigious,
  • contentious.
  •contentious (adjective)
  • dissident,
  • confrontational,
  • quarrelsome,
  • argumentive,
  • resistant,
  • conflicting,
  • antagonistic,
  • contrary,
  • dissenting,
  • protesting,
  • oppositional.
  •dialectic (adjective)
  • most rationalistic,
  • most dialectical,
  • rationalistic,
  • more dialectical,
  • more rationalistic.
  •disputable (adjective)
  • Mootable.
  •disputatious (adjective)
  • most dissentious,
  • most caviling,
  • dissentious,
  • more caviling,
  • more dissentious.
  •eristic (adjective)
  • most eristical,
  • more eristical.
  •live (adjective)
  • un-settled,
  • un settled.
  •moot (adjective)
  • open debate,
  • most contestable,
  • un decided,
  • un-resolved,
  • un resolved,
  • un-decided,
  • more contestable.
  •open (adjective)
  • yet to be decided,
  • up for discussion.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • questionable,
  • unsubstantiated,
  • dialectic,
  • hard to believe,
  • under examination,
  • paradoxical,
  • open to doubt,
  • Controvertible,
  • open to debate,
  • disputable,
  • arguable,
  • open,
  • contestable,
  • at issue,
  • Sub Judice,
  • Eristical,
  • under advisement,
  • open to question,
  • unproven,
  • live.
  •questionable (adjective)
  • most paradoxical,
  • un-confirmed,
  • hard believe,
  • open doubt,
  • most unconfirmed,
  • in definite,
  • most unproven,
  • un-reliable,
  • unconfirmed,
  • in-definite,
  • more paradoxical,
  • un-proven,
  • un proven,
  • hypo thetical,
  • un defined,
  • un reliable,
  • more unproven,
  • in determinate,
  • most controvertible,
  • un-defined,
  • pro visional,
  • more unconfirmed,
  • hypo-thetical,
  • more controvertible,
  • un confirmed.
  •uncertain (adjective)
  • mysterious,
  • insecure,
  • undecided,
  • deniable,
  • confused,
  • changeable,
  • ambivalent,
  • unsure,
  • vague,
  • precarious,
  • tentative,
  • unconvinced.
  •unsubstantiated (adjective)
  • uncorroborated,
  • unsupported.

• n.

  •
  • at odds (with),
  • at cross purposes,
  • at loggerheads (with someone),
  • on a collision course,
  • in contention,
  • discordant.
  •controversial (noun)
  • debatable.
  •debatable (noun)
  • in question,
  • subject to controversy,
  • provocative.
  •litigiousness (noun)
  • fire-eatings,
  • opinionateds,
  • fireeatings,
  • factiou,
  • salties,
  • disputatiou,
  • fire eatings,
  • contentiou,
  • touchies,
  • quarrelsomes,
  • spikies,
  • pugnaciou,
  • litigiou,
  • controversials,
  • combatives.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • scrappies,
  • belligerents,
  • scrappiness,
  • Litigiousness,
  • Contraries.

• v.

  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • opinion.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • divided,
  • warring,
  • disunited,
  • unresolved,
  • irreconcilable,
  • controversially.
  •
  • forensic.
  •argumentative
  • dialectical.
  •in dispute
  • issue.
  •Other relevant words:
  • hypothetic,
  • springy,
  • persuasion,
  • cranky,
  • unvoiced,
  • dissenter,
  • scrapper,
  • spiritualist,
  • fly sheet,
  • argument,
  • arduous,
  • garbled,
  • fluky,
  • come forth,
  • publish,
  • militant,
  • burry,
  • ill-humoured,
  • dianoetic,
  • exist,
  • awful,
  • medium,
  • unproved,
  • shakeable,
  • subject,
  • flee,
  • hooligan,
  • supply,
  • vanish,
  • barbed,
  • spread out,
  • judgment,
  • outcome,
  • tent-fly,
  • indeterminate,
  • debate,
  • convulse,
  • turn over,
  • changeful,
  • bristly,
  • rivalry,
  • put out,
  • intemperate,
  • questioning,
  • mollify,
  • cryptical,
  • scattered,
  • consequence,
  • dreadful,
  • mired,
  • undefended,
  • sophism,
  • briary,
  • slick,
  • peckish,
  • address,
  • pilot,
  • building complex,
  • perverse,
  • backbreaking,
  • provisionary,
  • talk,
  • insubordinate,
  • distressing,
  • alive,
  • assailable,
  • exit,
  • war-ridden,
  • unstable,
  • abominable,
  • result,
  • supposititious,
  • political party,
  • strong,
  • embarrassing,
  • pestiferous,
  • peaky,
  • objector,
  • discard,
  • government issue,
  • techy,
  • sore,
  • at odds,
  • divided up,
  • pacify,
  • afflictive,
  • irritating,
  • incompatible,
  • contradictory,
  • event,
  • unreconcilable,
  • tight,
  • give,
  • plaintiff in error,
  • gruff,
  • bemused,
  • thug,
  • resistive,
  • outlet,
  • tortuous,
  • liken,
  • emerge,
  • on the table,
  • obstinate,
  • cast away,
  • mouth,
  • domain,
  • chancy,
  • foul,
  • emergence,
  • capable,
  • equate,
  • proceeds,
  • throw out,
  • experience,
  • transferrable,
  • peevish,
  • agonistic,
  • number,
  • unspeakable,
  • unfold,
  • hypothetical,
  • know,
  • comparability,
  • shrewmouse,
  • digressive,
  • rainfly,
  • slam dance,
  • heavy,
  • disputation,
  • steamy,
  • heart-to-heart,
  • intelligent,
  • shy,
  • progeny,
  • composite,
  • fell,
  • subsist,
  • arguing,
  • fling,
  • slam,
  • splenetic,
  • orphic,
  • assignable,
  • viscid,
  • high-risk,
  • yobo,
  • flail,
  • badgering,
  • bouncy,
  • aggressive,
  • bristled,
  • distressful,
  • notion,
  • impression,
  • clear,
  • verbalise,
  • bothersome,
  • thresh,
  • surd,
  • dodgy,
  • lick,
  • disturbing,
  • inscrutable,
  • street fighter,
  • petulant,
  • undefendable,
  • publication,
  • confounded,
  • upshot,
  • lam,
  • lost,
  • sturdy,
  • awkward,
  • pasty,
  • sentiment,
  • judgement,
  • wayward,
  • timid,
  • finespun,
  • snarly,
  • severely,
  • chatoyant,
  • disordered,
  • waspish,
  • thresh about,
  • byzantine,
  • umbrageous,
  • contestant,
  • placate,
  • competition,
  • guileful,
  • belief,
  • inhabit,
  • divinatory,
  • outdoors,
  • risky,
  • cast out,
  • roughneck,
  • go,
  • toughened,
  • intemperately,
  • hoodlum,
  • fractious,
  • perturbing,
  • pesky,
  • hold out,
  • appease,
  • shadowed,
  • repellent,
  • viscous,
  • smutty,
  • bully,
  • torment,
  • vital,
  • protester,
  • iridescent,
  • gnarly,
  • payoff,
  • overt,
  • toughie,
  • bad,
  • yob,
  • opinionative,
  • laborious,
  • mucilaginous,
  • shared out,
  • vaporize,
  • live on,
  • soft,
  • company,
  • mixed-up,
  • galling,
  • hood,
  • patch up,
  • take flight,
  • shadowy,
  • comparison,
  • negociate,
  • convoluted,
  • area,
  • flip,
  • inharmonic,
  • dispose,
  • mazed,
  • mistrustful,
  • cunning,
  • mistrust,
  • military issue,
  • hot,
  • voiceless,
  • fragile,
  • clobber,
  • tolerant,
  • ruffian,
  • baffling,
  • exposed,
  • assuage,
  • jactitate,
  • knobbed,
  • amazon,
  • offspring,
  • agonistical,
  • unenviable,
  • cream,
  • reconcile,
  • decisive,
  • knockout,
  • put away,
  • take,
  • mutable,
  • split,
  • obscure,
  • dual-lane,
  • chuck,
  • perilous,
  • disconnected,
  • divisive,
  • open up,
  • thrash about,
  • ruling,
  • mystic,
  • hardly,
  • issuance,
  • release,
  • vexing,
  • toss away,
  • lively,
  • controversy,
  • yield,
  • drub,
  • contestation,
  • toilsome,
  • bowl,
  • raw,
  • rambling,
  • utter,
  • shaky,
  • scratchy,
  • grueling,
  • crusty,
  • unfastened,
  • gluey,
  • unconnected,
  • bellicose,
  • suppositious,
  • shared,
  • supposed,
  • elusive,
  • flukey,
  • dissonant,
  • piquant,
  • troubling,
  • punishing,
  • fly front,
  • feisty,
  • complainant,
  • barbellate,
  • mosh,
  • punk,
  • endure,
  • bewildered,
  • wary,
  • topic,
  • tent flap,
  • wondering,
  • untrusting,
  • afford,
  • sphere,
  • battler,
  • feeling,
  • spread,
  • write out,
  • knavish,
  • view,
  • lenify,
  • foxy,
  • loose,
  • egress,
  • way out,
  • tetchy,
  • rugged,
  • unsafe,
  • unsolved,
  • consider,
  • effect,
  • opposite,
  • diffident,
  • field,
  • polemically,
  • equivalence,
  • plaguey,
  • stadium,
  • mystifying,
  • tilt,
  • knotted,
  • upset,
  • atrocious,
  • secret,
  • disharmonious,
  • fly ball,
  • cryptic,
  • disjointed,
  • go forth,
  • pestering,
  • self-opinionated,
  • cast aside,
  • antipathetical,
  • affecting,
  • popular opinion,
  • unrecorded,
  • legal opinion,
  • sophistication,
  • catchy,
  • unmanageable,
  • slash,
  • toss out,
  • frail,
  • bedevilment,
  • undefined,
  • talk terms,
  • make up,
  • battleful,
  • heretical,
  • throw away,
  • burred,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • incertain,
  • gummy,
  • pettish,
  • takings,
  • touching,
  • be,
  • dwell,
  • notional,
  • unsealed,
  • fishy,
  • gruelling,
  • baffled,
  • at sea,
  • coordination compound,
  • tricksy,
  • inquisitive,
  • tender,
  • counter,
  • snarled,
  • befuddled,
  • filthy,
  • faint,
  • terrible,
  • wispy,
  • concentrated,
  • conveyable,
  • teasing,
  • irritable,
  • wily,
  • resilient,
  • deep,
  • thin-skinned,
  • bat,
  • fragmented,
  • populate,
  • pass,
  • verbalize,
  • huffy,
  • scene of action,
  • make out,
  • antipathetic,
  • briery,
  • plaguy,
  • distrust,
  • illogical,
  • wing,
  • deliberate,
  • heterodox,
  • funny,
  • rowdy,
  • occult,
  • reverse,
  • fighter,
  • slippery,
  • orbit,
  • muggy,
  • appellate,
  • open air,
  • yobbo,
  • settle,
  • chuck out,
  • logical thinking,
  • combatant,
  • strong-armer,
  • heavily,
  • abstract thought,
  • surface,
  • last,
  • immune,
  • mystical,
  • adverse,
  • worrisome,
  • survive,
  • leery,
  • transferable,
  • hold up,
  • thought,
  • thinking,
  • self-contradictory,
  • broken,
  • accommodate,
  • come out,
  • shot,
  • bring out,
  • on the fence,
  • out-of-doors,
  • sensible,
  • gruntle,
  • parlous,
  • testy,
  • spiny,
  • probationary,
  • pitch,
  • aviate,
  • sky,
  • crafty,
  • goon,
  • dim,
  • cruddy,
  • annoying,
  • firmly,
  • provisional,
  • severe,
  • excursive,
  • matter,
  • cut,
  • issuing,
  • litigator,
  • gentle,
  • surmise,
  • glutinous,
  • sly,
  • gnarled,
  • hirsute,
  • receptive,
  • return,
  • disoriented,
  • opened,
  • candid,
  • dissentient,
  • touch-and-go,
  • public opinion,
  • sports stadium,
  • ruffianly.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • complex,
  • intricate,
  • shrew,
  • plaintiff,
  • painful,
  • gladiatorial,
  • problematical,
  • suspicious,
  • termagant,
  • suppositional,
  • nettlesome,
  • knotty,
  • difficult,
  • iffy,
  • tough,
  • party,
  • delicate,
  • Confuted,
  • controversialist,
  • disputant,
  • doubted,
  • Argumental,
  • refutable,
  • sticky,
  • confutable,
  • Questioned,
  • speculative,
  • cat-and-dog,
  • discursive,
  • louche,
  • Contradictable,
  • nasty,
  • contested,
  • complicated,
  • worrying,
  • shady,
  • hard,
  • factious,
  • in doubt,
  • Mistakable,
  • reasoning,
  • pro and con,
  • defendant,
  • hairy,
  • litigant,
  • virago,
  • troublesome,
  • involved,
  • unconcluded,
  • confutative,
  • unsettled,
  • debater,
  • poignant,
  • combative,
  • critical,
  • tricky,
  • touchy,
  • Discursory,
  • vexatious,
  • undetermined,
  • unpacific,
  • ticklish,
  • contention,
  • prickly,
  • sensitive,
  • challengeable,
  • indefinite,
  • appellant,
  • shakable,
  • disputative,
  • ill-humored,
  • conjectural,
  • arguer,
  • pettifogging,
  • disreputable,
  • belligerent,
  • tangled,
  • problematic,
  • thorny.

Paraphrases for Controversial:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    contentious, disputed, polemical, disputable.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    uncontroversial.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    inconsistent, ambiguous, adversarial, litigious, provocative, difficult, disagreement, heated, moot, ambivalent, doubtful, Conflictive, critical, delicate, exciting, tricky, mixed, challenging, lively, Impugned, intractable, fierce, unanimous.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    contradictory, questionable, contested, debatable, confrontational, divisive, conflicting, dubious, problematic, contestable, paradoxical, objectionable, argumentative, much-discussed, conflictual, arguable, sensitive, sticking, controversy, undisputed, thorny.
  • Proper noun, singular
    controversy.

Antonyms for Controversial:

• adj.

  • all
    uncontroversial.
  • at issue
    incontrovertible, unquestionable, definite, sure, agreeable, peaceful, undoubted, certain, undisputed.
  • Other antonyms:
    tractable, uncontested, good-natured, easygoing, amicable, complaisant, good-tempered, affable, cooperative, obliging, sociable, noncontroversial, conciliatory, obedient, genial, amiable, gracious, complying, peaceable, amenable, cordial, submissive, acquiescent, benevolent, pacific, pleasant, compliant, ingratiating, docile, friendly.

Homophones for Controversial:

• controversially.