DISPUTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disputed mean? 

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

1. subject to disagreement and debate

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISPUTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subject to disagreement and debate

Similar:

controversial (marked by or capable of arousing controversy)

 Context examples 

Alleyne sat between them munching his bread, while the twain disputed across his knees, leaning forward with flushed faces and darting hands, in all the heat of argument.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They disputed about it for a time, but as they were weary they let the matter rest, and their eyes closed once more.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The Transcontinental made a dignified and convincing statement of how it first discovered Martin Eden, which was warmly disputed by The Hornet, with the exhibit of "The Peri and the Pearl."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“I believe,” said Mr. Murdstone, with an inclination of his head, “that Clara would have disputed nothing which myself and my sister Jane Murdstone were agreed was for the best.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I then descended to the courts of justice; over which the judges, those venerable sages and interpreters of the law, presided, for determining the disputed rights and properties of men, as well as for the punishment of vice and protection of innocence.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He replied, that a good case of a disputed will, where there was a neat little estate of thirty or forty thousand pounds, was, perhaps, the best of all.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So the archer gossiped as the three wayfarers threaded their way among the stamping horses, the busy grooms, and the knots of pages and squires who disputed over the merits of their masters' horses and deer-hounds.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Miss Trotwood, or Miss Betsey, as my poor mother always called her, when she sufficiently overcame her dread of this formidable personage to mention her at all (which was seldom), had been married to a husband younger than herself, who was very handsome, except in the sense of the homely adage, handsome is, that handsome does—for he was strongly suspected of having beaten Miss Betsey, and even of having once, on a disputed question of supplies, made some hasty but determined arrangements to throw her out of a two pair of stairs' window.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)