argumentative

  • 21argumentative denial — A denial in an argumentative or reasoning manner and not in direct, positive form of proper pleading. 41 Am J1st PI § 134 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 22argumentative traverse — An argumentative plea or answer. 41 Am J1st PI § 134 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 23argumentative — also argumentive adjective Date: 15th century 1. characterized by argument ; controversial 2. given to argument ; disputatious • argumentatively adverb …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 24argumentative — adjective prone to argue or dispute See Also: argue, arguer, arguable, argument, argumentation …

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  • 25argumentative — Synonyms and related words: argumental, belligerent, cat and dog, cat and doggish, combative, contentious, controversial, dialectic, disagreeable, disputatious, eristic, ill humored, litigious, logomachic, pilpulistic, polemic, polemical, pro and …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 26argumentative — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. contentious (See contention). II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. disputatious, pugnacious, contentious, factious; see quarrelsome 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. quarrelsome, combative, cranky,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 27argumentative — ar·gu·men·ta·tive || ‚ɑːgjÊŠ mentÉ™tɪv adj. polemic, contentious, fond of arguing …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 28argumentative — adjective 1》 given to arguing. 2》 using or characterized by systematic reasoning. Derivatives argumentatively adverb argumentativeness noun …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 29argumentative — a. 1. Containing argument, concerned with argument, for advocacy, apologetic. 2. Controversial, polemical. 3. Disputatious, given to controversy, addicted to argument …

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  • 30argumentative — adj 1. quarrelsome, battlesome, contentious, combative, wranglesome, dissentient, exceptive; argumental, polemic, dialectic, eristic, logomachic. 2. cantankerous, irascible, irritable, dyspeptic, ill humored, bad tempered; petulant, peevish,… …

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