DISPUTATIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disputatious mean? 

• DISPUTATIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective DISPUTATIOUS has 1 sense:

1. inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits

  Familiarity information: DISPUTATIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISPUTATIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits

Synonyms:

combative; contentious; disputatious; disputative; litigious

Context example:

a litigious and acrimonious spirit

Similar:

argumentative (given to or characterized by argument)

Derivation:

dispute (coming into conflict with)

dispute (a disagreement or argument about something important)

 Context examples 

You have erred, perhaps, he observed, taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood—you have erred perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is really the only notable feature about the thing.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)