English Dictionary: disputatiously | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Disputatious \Dis`pu*ta"tious\, a. Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper. The Christian doctrine of a future life was no recommendation of the new religion to the wits and philosophers of that disputations period. --Buckminster. -- {Dis`pu*ta"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Dis`pu*ta"tious*ness}, n. |