contentious
/kun-TEN-shus/adjectivecausing or likely to cause disagreement; quarrelsome
“Water rights remain the region's most contentious issue.”
- Synonyms
- controversial, disputed, combative
- Antonyms
- uncontroversial, amicable
- Memory hook
- contend: built for argument.
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