Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Given to arguing; disputatious.
- adj. Of or characterized by argument: an argumentative discourse.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Consisting in argument; containing a process of reasoning; controversial: as, an argumentative discourse.
- Showing reasons for.
- Addicted to argument; disputatious: as, an argumentative writer; he is very argumentative.
Wiktionary
- adj. prone to argue or dispute
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning.
- adj. obsolete Adductive as proof; indicative.
- adj. Given to argument; characterized by argument; disputatious.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. given to or characterized by argument
Etymologies
- From argumentat-, stem of Latin argumentari ("to prove, to conclude") + -ive (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As a consequence of a psychological phenomenon that might be called "argumentative reasoning," we're very skillful at arguing a particular case.”
“But to say if some of them owned slaves or thought of women or minorities as less than equal, then that must mean they were wrong on the 2nd, is just plain argumentative.”
“It was one of the toughest assignments of senior year -- a 4,000-word argumentative essay on a controversial topic.”
“Relevant to this discussion is the phenomenon of the so-called argumentative child.”
“This again is to say that it is due to the badness of the audience when his rhetoric includes aspects which are not in line with the idea of argumentative and pertinent rhetoric. (iii) In dealing with methods of traditional rhetoric Aristotle obviously assumes that even methods which have traditionally been used instead of argumentation can be refined so that they support the aim of an argumentative style of rhetoric.”
“Templates, Tips and Examples Persuasive essay, also known as argumentative essay or argument essay, is used to convince the reader of a writer's argument (s) relating to a debatable issue.”
“He said Jared Loughner had not displayed in the neighborhood the kind of argumentative, nonsensical behavior that raised concerns about his mental health at Pima Community College, where he was suspended last fall and directed to get a mental evaluation before returning.”
USA Today: Investigators look over bag suspect may have carried
“There were a few- un-American dirty commie pinko symps, no doubt- who decried the resultant proliferation of "argumentative" devices among high-powered autos.”
“But my aim here is at a particular kind of history--an 'argumentative' history, for lack of a better phrase - which explores the appearance and construction of canonical texts within particular arguments, and tries generally to avoid taking a position on the merits of substantive claims.”
Bartrum on The Constitutional Canon as Argumentative Metonymy
“Libertarians, in a kind of argumentative trickery, have sought to link Garrett Hardin's "The Tragedy of the Commons" to public lands in order to make their case against public ownership.”
Destroying Nature: Libertarianism and Unregulated Free Markets
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Words to Describe The Taste of Food
This list seeks to address a pet annoyance of mine. It occurs when chefs, food critics and travel writers, usually on television, taste something that looks either delicious or unusual and then in...
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Resident Pipsiculturalist Makes Huge ...
See comments on pipsiculture and homosexuality, which have nothing to do with each other except that I read comments on them at around the same time on the same day.
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Words from BBC Quiz
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Tweets
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madmouth oh boy. that's downright combative. May 8, 2009
bilby See casu marzu. May 7, 2009
madmouth food that doesn't agree with you. May 7, 2009