1449 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ kˈɒntɹəvˌɜːsi], [ kˈɒntɹəvˌɜːsi], [ k_ˈɒ_n_t_ɹ_ə_v_ˌɜː_s_i]

Similar words for controversy:

• other relevant words (adjective)
• altercation (noun)
• arguing (noun)
• argument (noun)
• bone of contention (noun)
• cause celebre (noun)
• cause célèbre (noun)
• competition (noun)
• conflict (noun)
• contention (noun)
• controversy (noun)
• debate (noun)
• debate, dispute (noun)
• difference (noun)
• difference of opinion (noun)
• disagreement (noun)
• discordance (noun)
• discussion (noun)
• dispute (noun)
• dissension (noun)
• dissentience (noun)
• dissonance (noun)
• fight (noun)
• fuss (noun)
• issue (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• pother (noun)
• quarrel (noun)
• row (noun)
• strife (noun)
• uncertainty (noun)
• unrest (noun)
• wrangle (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for controversy

Homophones for controversy

Synonyms for Controversy:

• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • speech.

• n.

  •
  • a war of words.
  •
  • bicker,
  • clash,
  • spat,
  • hassle.
  • altercation (noun)
  • runin,
  • set tos,
  • settos,
  • set-tos.
  • arguing (noun)
  • arguing.
  • argument (noun)
  • brannigans,
  • ex change,
  • knock down and drag outs,
  • ex-change,
  • ex changes,
  • difference opinion,
  • bone pick,
  • ex-changes,
  • faceoff,
  • argument,
  • knock down drag outs,
  • knock down drag out.
  • bone of contention (noun)
  • bone contention,
  • tender spots,
  • bone-contention,
  • sore points,
  • point question,
  • matter hand.
  • cause celebre (noun)
  • talk the town,
  • matter moment,
  • topic the day,
  • matter the moment,
  • matter of moment,
  • topic of day,
  • controversial cases,
  • topic day,
  • talk of town,
  • controversial issues,
  • talk town.
  • cause célèbre (noun)
  • cause-celebre,
  • war of word,
  • hot potatoes,
  • political footballs,
  • celebrated cases,
  • grist for gossip mill,
  • war words,
  • war word.
  • competition (noun)
  • tug-of-war,
  • quiz,
  • do or die,
  • go for the gold,
  • go for it,
  • one on one,
  • matchups,
  • horse race,
  • matchup,
  • contention,
  • dog eat dog,
  • athletic events,
  • pairing off,
  • athletic event,
  • concours.
  • conflict (noun)
  • contestation,
  • discordance,
  • dissentience.
  • contention (noun)
  • conflict,
  • antagonism,
  • dissidence,
  • opposition,
  • protest,
  • antipathy,
  • confrontation,
  • quarrel,
  • struggle,
  • contrariety,
  • resistance,
  • tension,
  • friction,
  • encounter.
  • controversy (noun)
  • tilt,
  • disputation.
  • debate (noun)
  • blahblahs,
  • re flection,
  • de-bate,
  • de liberation,
  • de-liberations,
  • rebuttings,
  • re-flection,
  • controvertings,
  • blah blahs,
  • de-liberation,
  • refutings,
  • re buttings,
  • re-butting,
  • re-flections,
  • de-bates,
  • blah blah,
  • mootings,
  • re flections,
  • blah-blahs,
  • de bates,
  • re-buttings,
  • de liberations,
  • blahblah,
  • de bate,
  • re butting.
  • debate, dispute (noun)
  • bickering,
  • wrangling,
  • beef,
  • words,
  • embroilment,
  • hurrah,
  • falling-out,
  • dissention.
  • difference (noun)
  • brush-off,
  • brushoff.
  • difference of opinion (noun)
  • bone of contention.
  • disagreement (noun)
  • cross-purpose,
  • cross-purposes,
  • ill feelings,
  • atmospherics,
  • divisiveness,
  • ill feeling,
  • dissonance.
  • discordance (noun)
  • Inharmony,
  • in harmony.
  • discussion (noun)
  • dis-course,
  • re-view,
  • dis-courses,
  • dis course,
  • re-views,
  • groupthinks,
  • inter views,
  • ex amination,
  • dis courses,
  • ex-aminations,
  • re views,
  • re view,
  • inter-view,
  • inter-views,
  • inter view,
  • ex aminations.
  • dispute (noun)
  • up roar,
  • up-roar,
  • up-roars,
  • up roars,
  • flareup.
  • dissension (noun)
  • bad vibe,
  • factionalisms,
  • sour notes.
  • dissentience (noun)
  • dis sentience,
  • dis sentiences,
  • dis-sentiences,
  • dis-sentience.
  • dissonance (noun)
  • dis parity,
  • dis parities,
  • in consistency,
  • dis-parities,
  • in-consistency,
  • dis harmony,
  • in congruity,
  • in consistencies,
  • dis-parity,
  • in-congruity,
  • dis-sonances,
  • in-consistencies,
  • in-congruities,
  • dis-harmony,
  • dis-harmonies,
  • dis-sonance,
  • in congruities,
  • dis sonance,
  • dis sonances,
  • dis harmonies.
  • fight (noun)
  • sparring matches,
  • free for all.
  • fuss (noun)
  • dis plays,
  • dis play,
  • dis-play,
  • kick-ups,
  • kick ups,
  • up-set,
  • up-sets,
  • up sets,
  • dis-plays,
  • kickups.
  • issue (noun)
  • point departure,
  • matter contention.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • duel,
  • dispute,
  • talking-to,
  • wingdings,
  • dustups,
  • Kickup,
  • finishers,
  • altercation,
  • fisticuffs,
  • romp,
  • kick up,
  • knock-down-drag-out,
  • unrest,
  • gin,
  • knock-down drag-out,
  • blow off,
  • disagreement,
  • OUTS,
  • fallings,
  • point in question,
  • factionalism,
  • knockdowns,
  • grudge,
  • blah-blah,
  • battle,
  • squabble,
  • set-to,
  • telling-off,
  • war of words,
  • out,
  • hot potato,
  • row,
  • crushers,
  • clinker,
  • TODO,
  • talking to,
  • scrimmage,
  • contest,
  • fight,
  • feud,
  • finisher,
  • point of departure,
  • political football,
  • dogfight,
  • difference,
  • competition,
  • dissension,
  • dustup,
  • wingding,
  • Cause Celebre,
  • setto,
  • wrangle,
  • clinkers,
  • rhubarb,
  • knock down and drag out,
  • sour note,
  • blow-off,
  • dogfights,
  • stew,
  • difficulty,
  • rumble,
  • catfight,
  • sore point,
  • knockdown,
  • topic of the day,
  • bickerings,
  • face off,
  • discussion,
  • fuss,
  • debate,
  • set to,
  • stink,
  • tender spot,
  • flare up,
  • grist for the gossip mill,
  • grounds for war,
  • crusher,
  • brannigan,
  • bad vibes,
  • celebrated case,
  • matter at hand,
  • squabblings,
  • talk of the town,
  • polemic,
  • groupthink,
  • statics,
  • controversial issue,
  • blowoff,
  • miff,
  • matter of contention,
  • scandal,
  • issue,
  • Mooting,
  • up set,
  • tussle,
  • GINS,
  • bone to pick,
  • shouting match,
  • controversial case,
  • sparring match,
  • kick-up,
  • strife,
  • matter of the moment.
  • pother (noun)
  • to do.
  • quarrel (noun)
  • dis approval,
  • dis-approval,
  • dis-approvals,
  • dis approvals,
  • catfights.
  • row (noun)
  • talking tos,
  • talkingtos,
  • tellingoff,
  • tongue lashing,
  • telling offs,
  • talkingto,
  • shouting matches,
  • tonguelashing,
  • telling-offs,
  • knock-down-drag-outs,
  • tellingoffs,
  • talking-tos.
  • strife (noun)
  • tug war.
  • uncertainty (noun)
  • confusion,
  • tentativeness,
  • uncertainty,
  • puzzle,
  • incertitude,
  • disputability,
  • deniability,
  • changeability,
  • ambivalence,
  • Questionability,
  • unsureness,
  • moot point,
  • vagueness.
  • unrest (noun)
  • moodiness.
  • wrangle (noun)
  • blow offs,
  • blow-offs,
  • knock-down drag-outs,
  • blowoffs.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • schism,
  • standoff,
  • discord,
  • circularity,
  • toing and froing,
  • ding-dong,
  • disunity,
  • disharmony,
  • crossfire,
  • rumpus,
  • fracas,
  • tangle,
  • run-in,
  • flak,
  • showdown,
  • battlefield,
  • turf war,
  • breach,
  • unpleasantness,
  • ballyhoo,
  • vendetta,
  • ructions,
  • running battle,
  • ruckus,
  • hoo-ha,
  • hair-splitting,
  • infighting,
  • slanging match,
  • blow up,
  • free-for-all.
  •
  • exchange,
  • tiff,
  • the fray,
  • warfare,
  • war,
  • pitched battle,
  • rift,
  • Skirmishing,
  • collision,
  • skirmish,
  • faction.
  •
  • scene,
  • scrap,
  • split.
  •
  • division,
  • brush.
  •
  • word.
  • Other relevant words:
  • leave,
  • set out,
  • swither,
  • uncertainness,
  • break up,
  • voice communication,
  • publication,
  • return,
  • carve up,
  • product line,
  • confer,
  • acclaim,
  • boeuf,
  • foeman,
  • away,
  • draw,
  • grumbling,
  • attack,
  • clang,
  • bellyache,
  • junk,
  • cope,
  • furrow,
  • parentage,
  • boxing,
  • disconnected,
  • traverse,
  • hustle,
  • meeting,
  • instruction,
  • inquiring,
  • melodic line,
  • erupt,
  • line of work,
  • cavort,
  • topic,
  • clangour,
  • persuade,
  • vary,
  • baffle,
  • oppositeness,
  • intelligence,
  • fight back,
  • matter,
  • disoblige,
  • hype,
  • event,
  • teaser,
  • actor's line,
  • stagger,
  • confab,
  • pray,
  • debauch,
  • bitch,
  • combative,
  • seam,
  • outlet,
  • determine,
  • holy writ,
  • name,
  • inharmoniousness,
  • mistake,
  • grizzle,
  • dress down,
  • talk,
  • irrupt,
  • binge,
  • deal,
  • note,
  • mystic,
  • mysterious,
  • crease,
  • emergence,
  • wondering,
  • brouhaha,
  • upshot,
  • combatant,
  • stupefy,
  • oral communication,
  • personal credit line,
  • machination,
  • fragmented,
  • lambast,
  • argufy,
  • remainder,
  • charge,
  • quizzical,
  • quit,
  • run into,
  • gravel,
  • overprotect,
  • bewilder,
  • gang fight,
  • rip,
  • fence,
  • commove,
  • start out,
  • cant,
  • view,
  • dumbfound,
  • interrogative,
  • resentment,
  • muss,
  • bump around,
  • brushing,
  • news,
  • jingle-jangle,
  • rough-and-tumble,
  • doubtful,
  • receive,
  • stunned,
  • tilted,
  • subject,
  • canted,
  • have kittens,
  • oppugn,
  • tendency,
  • incompatibility,
  • conundrum,
  • applaud,
  • static,
  • central,
  • trounce,
  • take out,
  • defensive structure,
  • son,
  • descent,
  • engagement,
  • embroider,
  • muddiness,
  • incommode,
  • blood,
  • magnify,
  • assertion,
  • sweep up,
  • aggressive,
  • ack-ack,
  • run afoul,
  • skin,
  • gripe,
  • crab,
  • telephone circuit,
  • coming upon,
  • bacchanal,
  • separate,
  • chide,
  • flap,
  • give voice,
  • mix-up,
  • jaundice,
  • work,
  • demand,
  • antiaircraft gun,
  • wobble,
  • ravel,
  • expect,
  • chew out,
  • shuffle,
  • disarray,
  • hoopla,
  • hoyden,
  • push,
  • stock,
  • strain,
  • run,
  • disquiet,
  • tempt,
  • start,
  • phrase,
  • contender,
  • animus,
  • tenseness,
  • resistivity,
  • contravention,
  • involve,
  • rail line,
  • haggle,
  • consequence,
  • cinder,
  • frazzle,
  • runaway,
  • burst out,
  • defense team,
  • ancestry,
  • revulsion,
  • aggression,
  • flack,
  • rent,
  • be given,
  • aggrandize,
  • aberrancy,
  • rubbish,
  • divergency,
  • rancour,
  • rock music,
  • mistaking,
  • defending team,
  • evoke,
  • inconsistency,
  • in question,
  • flip one's lid,
  • tensity,
  • affirmation,
  • financial statement,
  • straggle,
  • variation,
  • reprimand,
  • come out of the closet,
  • flip one's wig,
  • springboard,
  • mother,
  • rowing,
  • cable,
  • enemy,
  • switch over,
  • horror,
  • call down,
  • set forth,
  • contravene,
  • scrapper,
  • subscriber line,
  • noose,
  • atmospheric static,
  • perplex,
  • pad,
  • spoken language,
  • infract,
  • listing,
  • mystical,
  • clap,
  • take leave,
  • movement,
  • reel,
  • air division,
  • effort,
  • war-ridden,
  • publish,
  • sidesplitter,
  • shin,
  • commute,
  • blood line,
  • lark about,
  • gin rummy,
  • bible,
  • go forth,
  • sectionalization,
  • aversion,
  • pain,
  • offspring,
  • electrical resistance,
  • melee,
  • resistor,
  • take,
  • flare,
  • jaw,
  • course,
  • grumble,
  • disunited,
  • bid,
  • flak catcher,
  • shindy,
  • fight down,
  • combust,
  • way out,
  • undercover,
  • kerfuffle,
  • defense force,
  • chance,
  • jarful,
  • gambol,
  • turn on,
  • sweep,
  • shock,
  • disruption,
  • demurrer,
  • forbidden,
  • lambaste,
  • sidetrack,
  • wrack,
  • militant,
  • origin,
  • thigh-slapper,
  • go away,
  • sect,
  • chevy,
  • confabulate,
  • denial,
  • invite out,
  • rag,
  • shake,
  • cant over,
  • spoken communication,
  • gaiter,
  • issuance,
  • warring,
  • pedigree,
  • tip,
  • closer,
  • divide,
  • telephone exchange,
  • password,
  • takings,
  • interrogation,
  • harry,
  • proscribed,
  • issuing,
  • provoke,
  • make do,
  • talk over,
  • burst,
  • parole,
  • refuse,
  • laugher,
  • drag in,
  • grouse,
  • come out,
  • roister,
  • variety,
  • lose one's temper,
  • mystifier,
  • din,
  • replace,
  • proclivity,
  • rioting,
  • rollick,
  • write out,
  • cark,
  • flutter,
  • amplify,
  • lawsuit,
  • vex,
  • mold,
  • chafe,
  • business line,
  • acrimony,
  • set off,
  • snap,
  • niggle,
  • shamble,
  • call on the carpet,
  • partitioning,
  • rock 'n' roll,
  • electric resistance,
  • credit line,
  • fleck,
  • competitor,
  • make out,
  • find,
  • rouse,
  • armed combat,
  • walkaway,
  • tousle,
  • communication channel,
  • disputative,
  • judicial proceeding,
  • disk shape,
  • occult,
  • book,
  • tear,
  • field,
  • dither,
  • heel,
  • drag,
  • progeny,
  • tabu,
  • ko'd,
  • clangoring,
  • wonder,
  • brood,
  • run along,
  • blast,
  • ail,
  • junto,
  • call into question,
  • mephitis,
  • repugn,
  • doubt,
  • pose,
  • scheme,
  • tantrum,
  • melodic phrase,
  • acerbity,
  • grapple,
  • convert,
  • hope,
  • line of merchandise,
  • campaign,
  • frisk,
  • switch,
  • disport,
  • private,
  • snare,
  • perturb,
  • detrition,
  • amaze,
  • business,
  • setting,
  • gall,
  • jounce,
  • offend,
  • take to task,
  • fetor,
  • vie,
  • underground,
  • skeptical,
  • rancor,
  • raise up,
  • embroil,
  • transmission line,
  • manner of speaking,
  • tomboy,
  • entangle,
  • change,
  • turn over,
  • camarilla,
  • kayoed,
  • fistfight,
  • doubtfulness,
  • clandestine,
  • squawk,
  • aggrandise,
  • gap,
  • tidings,
  • fly off the handle,
  • head,
  • refer,
  • nonplus,
  • slugfest,
  • outrage,
  • beset,
  • call for,
  • polemize,
  • chip,
  • public violence,
  • variableness,
  • digress,
  • oppose,
  • malodor,
  • debauchery,
  • contradiction in terms,
  • release,
  • picture,
  • harass,
  • opponent,
  • upset,
  • berate,
  • disposal,
  • effect,
  • abnegate,
  • plague,
  • violate,
  • snarl up,
  • mental confusion,
  • assembly line,
  • crash,
  • opposite,
  • dirt,
  • military issue,
  • active,
  • mystery,
  • propensity,
  • skimpy,
  • score,
  • consider,
  • logos,
  • pettifog,
  • shoo-in,
  • press,
  • defense reaction,
  • jingle,
  • grilling,
  • ruction,
  • dip,
  • solicit,
  • dramatize,
  • brain-teaser,
  • charge up,
  • combat-ready,
  • tizzy,
  • express,
  • closed book,
  • rebut,
  • brushwood,
  • want,
  • trace,
  • language,
  • sputter,
  • rock-and-roll,
  • neutralise,
  • defense department,
  • aberrant,
  • expand,
  • battler,
  • swag,
  • line of business,
  • huff,
  • field of honor,
  • give-and-take,
  • word of honor,
  • trouble oneself,
  • make,
  • motion,
  • describe,
  • fascinate,
  • thicket,
  • pitch,
  • personal line of credit,
  • inflate,
  • puff up,
  • lecture,
  • reason,
  • rebuke,
  • stench,
  • get by,
  • pervert,
  • mutual exclusiveness,
  • controversy,
  • clinker brick,
  • worry,
  • play,
  • line of credit,
  • foe,
  • run across,
  • neutralize,
  • seeing red,
  • shift,
  • billet,
  • flurry,
  • line of descent,
  • have a fit,
  • atilt,
  • substitute,
  • go,
  • shape,
  • vista,
  • howler,
  • tune,
  • commutation,
  • government issue,
  • inconvenience oneself,
  • command,
  • cut,
  • beef cattle,
  • bloodline,
  • clamber,
  • scripture,
  • prohibited,
  • scramble,
  • disturb,
  • sceptical,
  • saturnalia,
  • molest,
  • skylark,
  • good book,
  • stick,
  • belie,
  • formulate,
  • line of products,
  • show,
  • call forth,
  • defense mechanism,
  • immunity,
  • telephone line,
  • spar,
  • blowout,
  • shinny,
  • stir,
  • melody,
  • excuse,
  • blow one's stack,
  • chivvy,
  • have,
  • take issue,
  • pugilism,
  • interview,
  • broiling,
  • objection,
  • orgy,
  • ask out,
  • bustle,
  • confer with,
  • fermentation,
  • tend,
  • quiddity,
  • angle of inclination,
  • stimulate,
  • altercate,
  • lard,
  • challenger,
  • temperament,
  • articulate,
  • discommode,
  • production line,
  • inclining,
  • cotton gin,
  • rumbling,
  • cabal,
  • causal agent,
  • precariousness,
  • break,
  • puff,
  • commotion,
  • variability,
  • need,
  • bitter,
  • dishevel,
  • payoff,
  • bawl out,
  • transgress,
  • break open,
  • drive,
  • arcanum,
  • jolt,
  • mystify,
  • embellish,
  • regulate,
  • test,
  • carry,
  • lyric,
  • delineate,
  • enlarge,
  • snag,
  • match-up,
  • rub,
  • angle,
  • crusade,
  • tempestuousness,
  • rive,
  • department of defense,
  • bring out,
  • knocked out,
  • defend,
  • explode,
  • causa,
  • pom-pom,
  • speech communication,
  • bake,
  • bash,
  • lurch,
  • dubitable,
  • grounds,
  • charm,
  • rock'n'roll,
  • hoo-hah,
  • holy scripture,
  • wow,
  • foetor,
  • problematical,
  • dod,
  • get,
  • ado,
  • unavowed,
  • polemise,
  • shot,
  • inquiry,
  • exit,
  • throw a fit,
  • battleground,
  • suit,
  • puzzler,
  • dubiety,
  • confidential,
  • emerge,
  • go ballistic,
  • class,
  • hash out,
  • latent hostility,
  • fighter,
  • take off,
  • happen,
  • sport,
  • outcome,
  • lark,
  • interrogate,
  • point out,
  • hit the ceiling,
  • channel,
  • diverseness,
  • rhubarb plant,
  • discombobulation,
  • taboo,
  • rally,
  • verboten,
  • delivery,
  • misinterpretation,
  • necessitate,
  • severance,
  • light touch,
  • malicious gossip,
  • confusedness,
  • difficultness,
  • yield,
  • stir up,
  • program line,
  • bump,
  • swing,
  • flack catcher,
  • degenerate,
  • demarcation,
  • magnetic dip,
  • come across,
  • field of battle,
  • rock and roll,
  • repulsion,
  • variant,
  • speculative,
  • partition,
  • nullify,
  • compete,
  • carouse,
  • thin,
  • parametric quantity,
  • scenery,
  • foment,
  • racket,
  • aberration,
  • mat,
  • disorder,
  • supply,
  • distaste,
  • agate line,
  • tartness,
  • countersign,
  • ferment,
  • bust,
  • kick,
  • drunken revelry,
  • stone,
  • antiaircraft,
  • part,
  • malodour,
  • pieplant,
  • protestation,
  • conjure,
  • angle of dip,
  • scuffle hoe,
  • hole-and-corner,
  • reek,
  • rival,
  • divert,
  • departure,
  • phone line,
  • ruffle,
  • misapprehension,
  • refutation,
  • tap,
  • bother,
  • hidden,
  • distract,
  • cavil,
  • dramatise,
  • ambivalency,
  • crinkle,
  • hit the roof,
  • interrogative sentence,
  • address,
  • indicate,
  • interchange,
  • detonate,
  • sectionalisation,
  • substitution,
  • go against,
  • flake,
  • scold,
  • inclination of an orbit,
  • watchword,
  • induce,
  • run around,
  • chevvy,
  • have words,
  • thorniness,
  • rock candy,
  • caper,
  • hurly burly,
  • causal agency,
  • knock rummy,
  • hooray,
  • inconvenience,
  • haggling,
  • jumping-off place,
  • fit,
  • doubting,
  • experimental variable,
  • maze,
  • proceeds,
  • embrangle,
  • beat,
  • hush-hush,
  • fire,
  • pull up stakes,
  • multifariousness,
  • egress,
  • meet,
  • inquire,
  • growl,
  • coppice,
  • tautness,
  • secluded,
  • defence,
  • put out,
  • dividing line,
  • conniption,
  • tumult,
  • case,
  • chew up,
  • wreck,
  • incline,
  • frolic,
  • agitation,
  • talk about,
  • collide,
  • cleave,
  • deliberate,
  • brabble,
  • jumping-off point,
  • budge,
  • scream,
  • slant,
  • number,
  • contrast,
  • defense lawyers,
  • oven broil,
  • split up,
  • trash,
  • bank line,
  • short letter,
  • sweat,
  • panorama,
  • adjure,
  • riddle,
  • clangor,
  • hugger-mugger,
  • bacchanalia,
  • require,
  • privy,
  • vindication,
  • job,
  • plug,
  • polemicise,
  • puff out,
  • naval division,
  • railway line,
  • holler,
  • postulate,
  • deviation,
  • enquire,
  • manage,
  • flummox,
  • aberrance,
  • scratch,
  • bit,
  • uproar,
  • pipeline,
  • come forth,
  • deviant,
  • orphic,
  • dissever,
  • defensive measure,
  • result,
  • problematic,
  • noise,
  • act upon,
  • lineage,
  • bully off,
  • blow a fuse,
  • wrinkle,
  • clank,
  • aspect,
  • changeableness,
  • rubbing,
  • katzenjammer,
  • magnetic inclination,
  • resist,
  • chivy,
  • shake up,
  • to-do,
  • prospect,
  • outburst,
  • turn,
  • surreptitious,
  • state of war,
  • belly laugh,
  • excite,
  • cloak-and-dagger,
  • stress,
  • disturbance,
  • trust,
  • air,
  • fret,
  • ill will,
  • grievance,
  • connive,
  • stemma,
  • stock split,
  • segmentation,
  • extinct,
  • look up,
  • copse,
  • take on,
  • lather,
  • round,
  • tipped,
  • word of god,
  • inquisitive,
  • knot,
  • dubiousness,
  • discourse,
  • tie,
  • keel,
  • infringe,
  • section,
  • treatment,
  • occupation,
  • enquiry,
  • see,
  • impedance,
  • challenge,
  • unhinge.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • cause,
  • disunion,
  • open question,
  • ask,
  • literary argument,
  • question,
  • sway,
  • differ,
  • Oppugnancy,
  • statement,
  • MATTER IN DISPUTE,
  • fighting,
  • argumentation,
  • entreat,
  • defense,
  • inequality,
  • controversial,
  • imbroglio,
  • intrigue,
  • leaning,
  • dust-up,
  • enmity,
  • quarrelsomeness,
  • list,
  • disavow,
  • jangle,
  • remonstrate,
  • expostulate,
  • deviance,
  • implore,
  • desideratum,
  • Vying,
  • sedition,
  • Polemics,
  • query,
  • contretemps,
  • careen,
  • disputable,
  • Velitation,
  • line,
  • quodlibet,
  • rock,
  • litigious,
  • passage of arms,
  • diverge,
  • apology,
  • firestorm,
  • disagree,
  • divergence,
  • contradiction,
  • bout,
  • evince,
  • broil,
  • consult,
  • controvert,
  • polemical,
  • field of inquiry,
  • contradict,
  • fray,
  • problem,
  • polemicize,
  • enigma,
  • feuding,
  • variance,
  • brawl,
  • falling out,
  • deny,
  • agitate,
  • bitterness,
  • sharp words,
  • combat,
  • disparity,
  • beg,
  • repugnance,
  • sparring,
  • argle-bargle,
  • plead,
  • desire,
  • misunderstanding,
  • hassel,
  • debatable,
  • dubious,
  • negation,
  • contend,
  • snarl,
  • Barney,
  • disputatious,
  • Disceptation,
  • Controversies,
  • animosity,
  • unharmoniousness,
  • Porism,
  • disaccord,
  • depart,
  • blood feud,
  • flare-up,
  • contentiousness,
  • pother,
  • discuss,
  • arguable,
  • hostility,
  • argy-bargy,
  • Discordancy,
  • donnybrook,
  • argue,
  • flyting,
  • rupture,
  • argue over,
  • diversity,
  • clashing,
  • Nonconcurrence,
  • bad blood,
  • rivalry,
  • affray,
  • hubbub,
  • high words,
  • Quarreling,
  • lean,
  • joust,
  • apologia,
  • jar,
  • discrepancy,
  • scuffle,
  • beseech,
  • influence,
  • disputed,
  • inclination,
  • dissent,
  • face-off,
  • refute,
  • inaccordance,
  • Squabbling,
  • independent variable,
  • jarring,
  • contestable,
  • casuistry,
  • scrapping,
  • riot,
  • competitiveness,
  • cat-and-dog life,
  • negate,
  • questioning,
  • litigation,
  • disposition,
  • secret,
  • Quarrelling,
  • Logomachy,
  • apologetics,
  • deviate,
  • dissensus,
  • parameter,
  • moot,
  • argie-bargie,
  • contentious,
  • gainsay.

Paraphrases for Controversy:

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    dispute.
  • Proper noun, singular
    dispute, differences, disputes, disagreements.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    difference, dispute.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    contentious.
  • Proper noun, singular
    variations.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    confrontation, contestation, criticism, deliberation, discord, rift, scandal, stir, Squabbling, infighting.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    argument, controversial, polemic.
  • Proper noun, singular
    argument, controversial, debate, polemic, contentions.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    argument, battle, bickering, contention, contest, contradiction, debate, discrepancy, discussion, dissension, dissent, disunity, divergence, friction, inconsistency, litigation, opposition, polemic, quarrel, spat, struggle, turmoil, uproar, wrangle, wrangling.

Homophones for Controversy:

• country borage, Canyon Treefrog.