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debateful

UK[dɪˈbeɪtfəɫ]

debateful adjective: contentious, argumentative, full of strife.

Adjective

debateful (comparative more debateful, superlative most debateful)

  1. (obsolete) Contentious, argumentative, full of strife.
    • Debatefull strife, and cruell enmitie / The famous name of knighthood fowly shend [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of debateful

comparativemore debateful
superlativemost debateful

Origin of debateful

From debate + -ful.

Questions about debateful

What does debateful mean?
Debateful means contentious, argumentative, full of strife.
What part of speech is debateful?
Debateful is an adjective.
How do you pronounce debateful?
Debateful is pronounced [dɪˈbeɪtfəɫ] (UK).

Words near debateful in the dictionary

  1. debate bro
  2. debate bros
  3. debateable
  4. debated
  5. debatedly
  6. debateful
  7. Debategate
  8. debatelord
  9. debatelords
  10. debatement
  11. debatements

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