controversialist
/ˌkɒn.tɹəˈvɜːɹ.ʃəl.ɪst/
controversialist noun: one who regularly engages in public controversies.
Noun
controversialist (plural controversialists)
- One who regularly engages in public controversies.
- Richard Dawkins has become a leading controversialist in a few areas.
- His indefatigable adversary, who is the perfect model of an agile controversialist, had attacked him as a magniloquent Thraso, on account of his Pansophical promises.1847–1886, James Crossley, editor, The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington, notes
- Synonyms:
- controversionist, controvertist, polemic
controversialist meaning in Hindi and Sanskrit
controversialist in Hindi
- a controversialist or disputant
- सांवादिक sāmvādik
controversialist in Sanskrit
- a controversialist or disputant
- सांवादिक sāṃvādika
Examples of controversialist in a sentence
- Woodward depicts [Thomas] Paine as a highminded controversialist, persecuted by reactionaries on both sides of the Atlantic for no more than liberal political views.1945 September, Charles W. Morton, “Tom Paine: America's God Father”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 May 2022:
- This was to have been the final date of the rightwing controversialist’s charmingly named Dangerous Faggot Tour of US campuses.2017 February 6, Matthew d’Ancona, “There must be free speech, even for Milo Yiannopoulos”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the...
Synonyms of controversialist
Forms of controversialist
| plural | controversialists |
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Origin of controversialist
From controversial + -ist.
Questions about controversialist
- What does controversialist mean?
- Controversialist means one who regularly engages in public controversies.
- What is controversialist in Hindi?
- Controversialist in Hindi is सांवादिक (sāmvādik). See Controversialist meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use controversialist in a sentence?
- Woodward depicts [Thomas] Paine as a highminded controversialist, persecuted by reactionaries on both sides of the Atlantic for no more than liberal political views.
- What part of speech is controversialist?
- Controversialist is a noun.
- How do you pronounce controversialist?
- Controversialist is pronounced /ˌkɒn.tɹəˈvɜːɹ.ʃəl.ɪst/.
- What is the plural of controversialist?
- The plural of controversialist is controversialists.
Words near controversialist in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: controversialist (page history and authors); सांवादिक (Hindi) (page history and authors); सांवादिक (Sanskrit) (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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