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argumentative
Stating facts and suggesting that particular inferences and conclusions can be drawn from them. Stating facts and suggesting that particular inferences and conclusions can be drawn from them.
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  1. Stating facts and suggesting that particular inferences and conclusions can be drawn from them. Stating facts and suggesting that particular inferences and conclusions can be drawn from them.
  2. Of or characterized by argument:
  3. Apt to argue; contentious
combative
Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
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  1. Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
  2. Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
  3. Eager or disposed to fight.
contentious
Of or marked by contention
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  1. Of or marked by contention
  2. Provoking or likely to provoke controversy
  3. Involving or causing contention; controversial:
disputatious
Of or relating to something that is in question as to its value or intent.
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  1. Of or relating to something that is in question as to its value or intent.
  2. Inclined to argue or debate; provoking debate.
  3. Inclined to dispute; fond of arguing; contentious
eristic
Of something or someone provoking strife, controversy or discord.
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  1. Of something or someone provoking strife, controversy or discord.
  2. Of or provoking controversy or given to sophistical argument and specious reasoning
  3. Given to or characterized by disputatious, often specious argument.
litigious
Inclined to engage in lawsuits.
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  1. Inclined to engage in lawsuits.
  2. Quarrelsome
  3. Argumentative or combative.
polemic
Of or relating to a controversy, argument, or refutation.
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  1. Of or relating to a controversy, argument, or refutation.
  2. Of or involving dispute; controversial
  3. Argumentative; disputatious
quarrelsome
Argumentative; belligerent; contentious; given to quarreling.
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  1. Argumentative; belligerent; contentious; given to quarreling.
  2. Given to quarreling; contentious.
  3. Marked by quarreling.
scrappy
Full of fighting spirit.
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  1. Full of fighting spirit.
  2. (Informal) Fond of fighting, arguing, etc.; aggressive
  3. Quarrelsome; contentious.
Find another word for polemical. In this page you can discover 10 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for polemical, like: argumentative, combative, contentious, disputatious, eristic, litigious, polemic, quarrelsome, scrappy and conflict.

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  • Tomlinson, The Prayer Book, Articles and Homilies (1897), a polemical work from the Protestant point of view, but scholarly and based on a mass of contemporary authorities to which references are given; the bishop of Exeter, The Ornaments Rubric (London, 1901), a pamphlet.

  • It is the chief of the dogmatic or polemical works, and rules the accuser out of court at the very opening of the case.

  • Among contemporaries he passed for one of the most formidable polemical or gladiatorial rhetoricians; and a considerable section of his extant works are invectives.

  • His works are few and chiefly polemical, e.g.

  • He also displays in this work a considerable knowledge of the Rabbinical writings and a skilful polemical method which was surpassed by none of the later anti-Jewish writers.

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