Usually means: Prone to arguing or debating.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word disputatious:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. disputatious: Merriam-Webster
  2. disputatious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disputatious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disputatious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disputatious: Vocabulary.com
  6. disputatious: Wordnik
  7. disputatious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. disputatious: Wiktionary
  9. disputatious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. disputatious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. disputatious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Disputatious, disputatious: Dictionary.com
  13. Disputatious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Disputatious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. disputatious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. disputatious: Rhymezone
  17. Disputatious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. disputatious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. disputatious: FreeDictionary.org
  20. disputatious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. disputatious: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. disputatious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disputatious: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disputatious: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (disputatious)

▸ adjective:  Of or relating to something that is in question as to its intent or value.
▸ adjective:  Inclined to argue or debate; provoking debate.

Similar:
disputative, contentious, argumentative, litigious, contentional, disquisitorial, disquisitory, controversal, disquisitive, disquisitional, more...

Opposite:
agreeable, amicable, compliant, conciliatory, complaisant

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Similar:
disputative, contentious, argumentative, litigious, contentional, disquisitorial, disquisitory, controversal, disquisitive, disquisitional, more...

Opposite:
agreeable, amicable, compliant, conciliatory, complaisant



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