Controversial

Adjective

 * 1) Arousing controversy—a debate or discussion of opposing opinions.

Adverbs for Controversial
highly; unfortunately; temptingly; inevitably; religiously; violently; tediously; painfully; excitably; vehemently; stupidly obstinately; endlessly; bitterly; intricately dangerously; traditionally; diplomatically; perplexingly.

Nouns for Controversial
topic; subject; work; author; method.

Antonyms for Controversial
uncontroversial; noncontroversial

Derived terms
controversialness

Related terms
controversialist; controversiality; controversy; controvert; controverter; controvertible

Thesaurus
contestable, controvertible, debatable, deniable, dialectic, disputable, disputatious, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, eristic, factious, iffy, ill-humored, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, litigious, logomachic, mistakable, moot, open to doubt, open to question, pilpulistic, polemic, polemical, pro and con, problematic, provocative, quarrelsome, questionable, refutable, scrappy, speculative, suppositional, suspect, suspicious, unsettled

Etymology
From controversia: + -al:; see controversy.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: спорен
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 有爭議的, 有争议的 (yǒu zhēngyì de)
 * Croatian:
 * Danish: kontroversiel, omstridt
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: vastuoluline
 * Finnish: kiistelty, kiistanalainen
 * French:, polémique
 * German: ,
 * Greek: αμφιλεγόμενος
 * Hebrew: שנוי במחלוקת (shanui be'makhloqet), שנויה במחלוקת (shnuia be'makhloqet)


 * Hungarian: vitás, vitatott,  nagy port kavaró
 * Icelandic: umdeildur
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: kontrowersyjny, kontrowersyjna, kontrowersyjne
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: controversabil, controversat, discutabil, polemizat
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: tartışmalı, ihtilaflı, çelişmeli