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Often used in the same context:
controversial,
acrimonious,
divisive,
rancorous,
thorny,
touchy,
fractious,
testy,
nettlesome,
prickly,
tense,
heated,
ticklish,
problematic,
vexing,
bitter,
unpopular,
combative,
complicated,
knottiest,
unresolved,
protracted,
stormy,
trickiest,
tumultuous,
disputed,
intractable,
tempestuous,
convoluted,
troublesome,
confrontational,
dicey,
contested,
problematical,
emotive,
polarized,
messy,
tortuous,
vitriolic,
unsettled,
incendiary,
lengthy,
volatile,
costly,
disputatious,
stalemated,
adversarial,
deadlocked,
arduous,
weighty,
hot potato,
stickiest,
germane,
important,
perplexing,
eventful,
momentous,
crucial,
unedifying,
strident,
tetchy,
debatable,
quarrelsome,
difficult,
irresolvable,
arcane,
murkier,
conciliatory,
confusing,
rocky,
stalled,
fence mending,
politicized,
turbulent,
outspoken,
salient,
lopsided,
challenging,
impassioned,
embarrassing,
painful,
chaotic,
amicable,
troubling,
unpalatable,
cordial,
intriguing,
anticlimactic,
unseemly,
litigious,
frustrating,
antagonistic,
complex,
nastier,
substantive,
delicate,
unsavory,
bizarre,
tedious,
exasperating,
ugly,
hashed,
debated,
noncontroversial,
tricky,
uncontroversial,
vexed,
disputable
Appears in the definition of:
arguing,
argument,
combatively,
contention,
contestation,
controversy,
disceptation,
disputation,
hornet's nest,
hornets' nest,
scrappily,
sea lawyer,
tilt
Synonyms:
aggressive,
argumentative,
battleful,
bellicose,
combative,
controversial,
disputatious,
disputative,
litigious
Also try:
— Nouns for contentious:
issue
issues,
politics,
debate,
matters,
cases,
matter,
nature,
question,
area,
spirit,
more...
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