disputatious

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of or relating to something that is in question as to its intent or value.
  2. Inclined to argue or debate; provoking debate.
    — He was followed by a disputatious gentleman, who had the temerity to maintain before the royal misocapnist (the Counterblast had not as yet issued from the monarch's lips, but his anti-nicotian prejudices were well known,) the thesis, that "tobacco must needs be good;" proceeding to his proof "by enumeration or induction, because Kings, Princes, Nobles, Earles, Lords, Knights, Gentlemen of all Countries and Nations, reckoning a number, loved it."

词形变化

more disputatious comparative most disputatious superlative

词源

From disputation, equivalent to disputati(on) + -ous.
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