tendentious
/tɛnˈdɛnʃəs/
tendentious adjective: having a tendency, written or spoken, with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one; implicitly or explicitly slanted; biased.
Adjective
tendentious (comparative more tendentious, superlative most tendentious)
- Having a tendency, written or spoken, with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one; implicitly or explicitly slanted; biased.
- Near-synonyms: partisan, slanted, partial, prejudiced
- That he was a supporter of the cause was clear, because his reports from the front were tendentious.
- Synonyms:
- partisan, slanted, partial, prejudiced
tendentious meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Arabic
tendentious in Urdu
- میلانی, رجحانی
tendentious in Bengali
- একটি প্রবণতা থাকা, লিখিত, কথ্য, একটি দলীয়, পক্ষপাতদুষ্ট, পূর্বধারণাযুক্ত উদ্দেশ্য নিয়ে
tendentious in Arabic
- tendentious
- مُغْرِض muḡriḍ
Synonyms of tendentious
Antonyms
Forms of tendentious
| comparative | more tendentious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most tendentious |
Origin of tendentious
From tendency + -ious, after German tendenziös.
Words formed from tendentious
Questions about tendentious
- What does tendentious mean?
- Tendentious means having a tendency, written or spoken, with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one; implicitly or explicitly slanted; biased.
- What is tendentious in Urdu?
- Tendentious in Urdu is میلانی, رجحانی. See Tendentious meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is tendentious?
- Tendentious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce tendentious?
- Tendentious is pronounced /tɛnˈdɛnʃəs/.
Words near tendentious in the dictionary
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