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eristic

eristic adjective: provoking strife, controversy or discord.

Adjective

eristic (comparative more eristic, superlative most eristic)

  1. Provoking strife, controversy or discord.
    • c. 1810-1834? Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Waterland
      a specimen of admirable special pleading in the court of eristic logic

Noun

eristic (plural eristics)

  1. One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious.
  2. A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest.
    • Poets may be incurious of the subtleties of philological eristic, but they are wont to see into the heart of things.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “IV. Prometheus”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 111

eristic meaning in Tamil and Bengali

eristic in Tamil

சர்ச்சை விரும்பி, விவாத விரும்பி, சர்ச்சையை விரும்பும், விவாதத்தை விரும்பும், சர்ச்சை செய்யும் நோக்குடைய

eristic in Bengali

তর্কবাজ, বিতর্কপ্রি়

Forms of eristic

Adjective
comparativemore eristic
superlativemost eristic
alternative uncommoneristical
Noun
pluraleristics

Origin of eristic

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐριστικός (eristikós, “eager for strife”). See also Eris.

Words formed from eristic

Questions about eristic

What does eristic mean?
Eristic means provoking strife, controversy or discord.
What is eristic in Tamil?
Eristic in Tamil is சர்ச்சை விரும்பி, விவாத விரும்பி, சர்ச்சையை விரும்பும். See Eristic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is eristic?
Eristic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near eristic in the dictionary

  1. Erismans
  2. erisophake
  3. erisophakes
  4. eristavi
  5. eristavis
  6. eristic
  7. eristical
  8. eristically
  9. eristicophin
  10. eristics
  11. eristostatin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eristic (page history and authors); eristic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); eristic (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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