| 单词 | argumentative |
| 释义 | argumentative (once / 5298 pages) adj If you're argumentative, you have a tendency to quarrel or squabble. An argumentative classmate always finds a reason to disagree with the teacher's viewpoint. You'd probably enjoy being on a debate team if you're naturally argumentative. Argumentative people always seem to come up with an argument or difference of opinion. When it first appeared in the 15th century, argumentative simply described anything having to do with arguments, from the Latin root arguere, "make clear, make known, or demonstrate." By the 1660s, it had also come to mean "fond of arguing." WORD FAMILYargumentative: argumentatively, unargumentative+/arguable: arguably, inarguable, unarguable/argue: arguable, argued, arguer, argues, arguing, argument, argumentation, argumentative, re-argue/arguer: arguers/arguing: arguings/argument: arguments, counterargument/argumentation: argumentations/counterargument: counterarguments/inarguable: inarguably/unarguable: unarguably USAGE EXAMPLESI can’t call to mind any other painting by a trained artist, rather than a backroads outsider, as intricately argumentative as “The Forgotten Man.” The New Yorker(Dec 24, 2016) The Los Angeles Times’ music team is diverse — sometimes even argumentative — in its opinions. Los Angeles Times(Dec 20, 2016) According to formula, when they first encounter one another sparks fly, but they’re argumentative and full of aggression. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) adj given to or characterized by argument an argumentative discourse argumentative to the point of being cantankerous an intelligent but argumentative child Syn|Ant quarrelsome given to quarreling combative, contentious, disputatious, disputative, litigiousinclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits eristic, eristicalgiven to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments unargumentative not given to or characterized by argument noncontentiousof persons; not given to controversy |
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