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contestatory

contestatory adjective: serving to contest something.

Adjective

contestatory (comparative more contestatory, superlative most contestatory)

  1. Serving to contest something.
    • It is one thing to compare the claims that can be made for cinema as a homogeneous and homogenizing, versus a heterogeneous institution, and another thing to valorize heterogeneity as necessarily contestatory.2002, Judith Mayne, Cinema and Spectatorship, page 80

Forms of contestatory

comparativemore contestatory
superlativemost contestatory

Questions about contestatory

What does contestatory mean?
Contestatory means serving to contest something.
What part of speech is contestatory?
Contestatory is an adjective.

Words near contestatory in the dictionary

  1. contestably
  2. contestant
  3. contestants
  4. contestation
  5. contestations
  6. contestatory
  7. contested
  8. contestee
  9. contestees
  10. contester
  11. contesters

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