Usually means: Strongly critical, controversial, or disputatious.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word polemical:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. polemical: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. polemical: Merriam-Webster
  3. polemical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. polemical: Collins English Dictionary
  5. polemical: Vocabulary.com
  6. Polemical, polemical: Wordnik
  7. polemical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. polemical: Wiktionary
  9. Polemical, polemical: Dictionary.com
  10. polemical: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Polemical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Polemical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. polemical: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. polemical: Rhymezone
  15. Polemical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. polemical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. polemical: FreeDictionary.org
  18. polemical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. polemical: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. polemical: Legal dictionary

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adjective:  Related to argument or controversy; containing polemic, being polemic.
adjective:  Being an attempt to evaluate the arguments comprehensively.
adjective:  (somewhat derogatory) Prone to causing disputes; inclined to causing the expression of opposing opinions, disputatious, contentious, edgy.
noun:  A diatribe or polemic.

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