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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

arguable, argumental, argumentative, at issue, belligerent, cat-and-dog, cat-and-doggish, combative, confutable, conjectural, contentious, 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

Dictionary Results for controversial:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

controversial
    adj 1: marked by or capable of arousing controversy; "the issue
           of the death penalty is highly controversial"; "Rushdie's
           controversial book"; "a controversial decision on
           affirmative action" [ant: noncontroversial,
           uncontroversial]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Controversial \Con`tro*ver"sial\, a. [Cf. LL. controversialis.]
   Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious;
   polemical; as, controversial divinity.
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         Whole libraries of controversial books.  --Macaulay.
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