What is another word for controversial?
756 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ kˌɒntɹəvˈɜːʃə͡l], [ kˌɒntɹəvˈɜːʃəl], [ k_ˌɒ_n_t_ɹ_ə_v_ˈɜː_ʃ_əl]Table of Contents
Similar words for controversial:- all (adjective)
- arguable (adjective)
- argumentative (adjective)
- at issue (adjective)
- contentious (adjective)
- dialectic (adjective)
- disputable (adjective)
- disputatious (adjective)
- eristic (adjective)
- live (adjective)
- moot (adjective)
- open (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- questionable (adjective)
- uncertain (adjective)
- unsubstantiated (adjective)
- controversial (noun)
- debatable (noun)
- litigiousness (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- argumentative
- in dispute
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Controversial:
adj.
•all (adjective) •arguable (adjective) •argumentative (adjective)- polemical,
- spikier,
- polemic,
- fire-eating,
- Eristic,
- spikiest,
- disputatious,
- spiky,
- scrappy,
- fire eating,
- opinionated,
- having a chip on one's shoulder,
- salty.
- in dispute,
- uncertain,
- debateable,
- open to discussion,
- argumentative,
- dubious,
- doubtful,
- dubitable,
- under discussion,
- disputed,
- Contended,
- suspect,
- Doubtable,
- moot,
- litigious,
- contentious.
- dissident,
- confrontational,
- quarrelsome,
- argumentive,
- resistant,
- conflicting,
- antagonistic,
- contrary,
- dissenting,
- protesting,
- oppositional.
- 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.
- 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.
n.
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- at odds (with),
- at cross purposes,
- at loggerheads (with someone),
- on a collision course,
- in contention,
- discordant.
v.
•Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- forensic.
- 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.
- 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:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
contentious, disputed, polemical, disputable.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
uncontroversial.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
inconsistent, ambiguous, adversarial, litigious, provocative, difficult, disagreement, heated, moot, ambivalent, doubtful, Conflictive, critical, delicate, exciting, tricky, mixed, challenging, lively, Impugned, intractable, fierce, unanimous.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
contradictory, questionable, contested, debatable, confrontational, divisive, conflicting, dubious, problematic, contestable, paradoxical, objectionable, argumentative, much-discussed, conflictual, arguable, sensitive, sticking, controversy, undisputed, thorny.
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Proper noun, singular
controversy.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Controversial:
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adj.
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all
uncontroversial.
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at issue
incontrovertible, unquestionable, definite, sure, agreeable, peaceful, undoubted, certain, undisputed.
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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.
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