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Polemical

//pəˈlɛmɪkəl// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Related to argument or controversy; containing polemic, being polemic.; Being an attempt to evaluate the arguments comprehensively.

    "[…] in order to give a comprehensive critical and polemical analysis of the Dictionary in question, a whole book would be needed."

  2. 2
    Related to argument or controversy; containing polemic, being polemic.; Prone to causing disputes; inclined to causing the expression of opposing opinions, disputatious, contentious, edgy. derogatory

    "And though the annals of the period do not show us that there was less ale drawn, or less canary called for; men got dry with the heat of polemical discussion, and drunk with a text, not the fag end of a ballad, in their mouths; and people made a sort of morality of straight hair, long faces, and sad-coloured garments."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or involving dispute or controversy wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A diatribe or polemic.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From polemic + -al.

Etymology 2

From polemic + -al.

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