ARGUMENTATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does argumentative mean? 

• ARGUMENTATIVE (adjective)
  The adjective ARGUMENTATIVE has 1 sense:

1. given to or characterized by argument

  Familiarity information: ARGUMENTATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARGUMENTATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Given to or characterized by argument

Context example:

an intelligent but argumentative child

Similar:

quarrelsome (given to quarreling)

combative; contentious; disputatious; disputative; litigious (inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits)

eristic; eristical (given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments)

Antonym:

unargumentative (not given to or characterized by argument)

Derivation:

argue (have an argument about something)

 Context examples 

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Is the patient argumentative and difficult to get along with?

(NPI - Argumentative and Difficult to Get Along With, NCI Thesaurus)

I wish Mr. Micawber, if I make myself understood, said Mrs. Micawber, in her argumentative tone, to be the Caesar of his own fortunes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"It seems a most questionable step," said Summerlee, argumentative to the last, "but if you are all going, I hardly see how I can remain behind."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Miss Bates's powerful, argumentative mind might have strengthened yours.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

" Once more, argumentative hostility woke within me. I could not accept such an overwhelming idea as he suggested; so, with an attempt to argue of which I was even at the moment ashamed, I said:—She may have been placed here since last night.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This priest I was able to find, and though he proved a very argumentative fellow, who took it absurdly amiss that I should point out to him the corrosive effect which modern science must have upon his beliefs, he none the less gave me some positive information.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)