controversialist

Noun

Meaning

One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

eristic disputant wrangler fighter combatant belligerent polemic polemics accuser logician denier brawler rationalist litigant apologist

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Antonyms

defendant

Hypernyms

individual person soul mortal somebody someone

Hyponyms

crusader resister reformer reformist accuser denier

Examples

It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel. Tony Judt

McLachlan (1987–90), 261; Gibbs, 38; Jackson, 102; Uglow, 169. Religious controversialist Priestley engaged in numerous political and religious pamphlet wars. Source: Internet

She was compared with such leading lights as the theologian and controversialist Joseph Priestley and Paine, whose Rights of Man (1791) would prove to be the most popular of the responses to Burke. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

controversial subject controversial understanding controversialism controversiality controversialize controversiall