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controversional

controversional is the alternative form 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

Forms of controversional

comparativemore controversional
superlativemost controversional

Origin of controversional

Probably an alteration, after controversion. By surface analysis, controversion + -al.

Questions about controversional

What is controversional the alternative form of?
Controversional is the alternative form of controversial.

Words near controversional in the dictionary

  1. controversially
  2. controversialness
  3. controversials
  4. controversies
  5. controversion
  6. controversional
  7. controversionist
  8. controversionists
  9. controversions
  10. controversor
  11. controversors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: controversional (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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