contested

Speech parts

1. contested - Adjective

2. contested - Verb

Meaning

of Contest

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

disputed problematic contentious questionable debatable disputable debated challenged argued contended litigated sparling divided question opposed
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Antonyms

given supported accepted removed agreed advanced
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Phrases with the word

aggressively contested sharply contested acrimoniously contested

Examples

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Do not let habit, born from experience, force you along this road, directing aimless eye and echoing ear and tongue; but judge by reason the much contested proof which I have spoken. Parmenides

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. Sarah Palin

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent. Aung San Suu Kyi

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground. Helen Garner

Close letter words and terms

contestant contestation contestatory contestee contester contestible