Controversialist synonyms

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debater
One who debates or participates in a debate; one who argues.
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disputer
One who disputes.
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parliamentarian
One who is expert in parliamentary procedures, rules, or debate.
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logomacher
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belligerent
A belligerent person, group, or nation
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dialectician
(Now Rare) An expert in dialectic; logician
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reasoner
One who reasons.
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casuist
Someone who attempts to specify exact and precise rules for the direction of every circumstance of behavior.
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polemicist
A person who puts forward controversial views
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polemist
A polemicist
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arguer
One who argues.
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wrangler
A cowboy who herds livestock, esp. saddle horses
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discussant
Someone involved in a discussion, especially a participant in a formal discussion or who has been assigned a particular role or topic. [from 20th c.]
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litigant
A party to a legal action.
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fighter (related)
A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is that of shooting down other aircraft. Some of these (Fighter-Attack or Attack aircraft) also have a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
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eristic
A person who engages in such discourse or argument
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churchman (related)
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pamphleteer (related)
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Controversialist Sentence Examples

  • The latter work was attacked by Burnet and others, but the author showed himself as keen a controversialist as ever.

  • His sermons attracted wide attention in that community, and he gained a considerable reputation as a theologian and a controversialist by his publication in 1814 of a volume entitled Defence of Christianity, written in answer to a work, The Grounds of Christianity Examined (1813), by George Bethune English (1787-1828), an adventurer, who, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was in turn a student of law and of theology, an editor of a newspaper, and a soldier of fortune in Egypt.

  • He was an extremely vigorous controversialist, and his Latin abounds in denunciatory epithets.

  • At the end of the century Isaac ben Moses, called Profiat Duran (Efodi), is chiefly known as an antiChristian controversialist (letter to Me'ir Alguadez), but also wrote on grammar (Ma`aseh Efod) and a commentary on the Moreh.

  • Ignatius was no controversialist; and the Moor rode off victorious.

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