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contraversial

contraversial is the misspelling of controversial.

Meaning of controversial

Adjective

controversial (comparative more controversial, superlative most controversial)

  1. Arousing or likely to arouse controversy.
    • Whole libraries of controversial books.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    hot
  2. Engaging in or given to controversy; disputatious, argumentative.

See all 3 meanings of controversial

Questions about contraversial

What is contraversial the misspelling of?
Contraversial is the misspelling of controversial.

Words near contraversial in the dictionary

  1. contravening
  2. contraveningly
  3. contravention
  4. contraventional
  5. contraventions
  6. contraversial
  7. contraversion
  8. contraversions
  9. contraversive
  10. contraversively
  11. contrawise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contraversial (page history and authors); controversial (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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