ARGUING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arguing mean? 

• ARGUING (noun)
  The noun ARGUING has 1 sense:

1. a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement

  Familiarity information: ARGUING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARGUING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

arguing; argument; contention; contestation; controversy; disceptation; disputation; tilt

Context example:

they were involved in a violent argument

Hypernyms ("arguing" is a kind of...):

conflict; difference; difference of opinion; dispute (a disagreement or argument about something important)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arguing"):

argle-bargle; argy-bargy (a verbal dispute; a wrangling argument)

firestorm (an outburst of controversy)

sparring (an argument in which the participants are trying to gain some advantage)

polemic (a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma))

fight (an intense verbal dispute)

 Context examples 

There was no arguing upon such a project.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A behavior disorder characterized by a persistent pattern of defiant, disobedient, and hostile behavior towards authority figures, manifested by a frequent loss of temper, arguing, becoming angry or vindictive, or other negativistic behaviors.

(Oppositional Defiant Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

This was manifestly a prig of the first water, and there was no use arguing with him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

No, it’s no use arguing.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Such arguing and pleading and explaining before we could get them mollified!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We sat in the Strasburg salle-à-manger arguing the question for half an hour, but the same night we had resumed our journey and were well on our way to Geneva.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The hunters were still arguing and roaring like some semi-human amphibious breed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The measuring was a most solemn and serious function, though it was nothing to the trying-on two days later, when my uncle stood by in an agony of apprehension as each garment was adjusted, he and Weston arguing over every seam and lapel and skirt until I was dizzy with turning round in front of them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I do remember now being with you, and seeing him as well as the rest—but that we were ever alone for five minutes—However, it is not worth arguing about, for whatever might pass on his side, you must be convinced, by my having no recollection of it, that I never thought, nor expected, nor wished for anything of the kind from him.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Henrietta, conscious and ashamed, and seeing no cousin Charles walking along any path, or leaning against any gate, was ready to do as Mary wished; but No! said Charles Musgrove, and No, no! cried Louisa more eagerly, and taking her sister aside, seemed to be arguing the matter warmly.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)