English
Etymology
Latin controversia ( “ controversy ” ) + -al controversy
Pronunciation
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Adjective
controversial (comparative more controversial , superlative most controversial )
Arousing controversy —a debate or discussion of opposing opinions.
(Can we date this quote?) Macaulay:
Whole libraries of controversial books.
Usage notes
Nouns often used with "controversial": topic, subject, work, author, method, etc.
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Translations
arousing controversy
Arabic: معارض
Armenian: վիճահարույց (hy) ( vičaharuycʻ )
Azerbaijani: mübahisəli
Belarusian: спрэ́чны ( spréčny ) , спо́рны ( spórny )
Bulgarian: спо́рен (bg) ( spóren )
Catalan: controvertit polèmic (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 有爭議 ／ 有争议 ( yǒuzhēngyì ) , 有争议 ( yǒuzhēngyì )
Czech: kontroverzní sporný (cs)
Danish: kontroversiel omstridt
Dutch: omstreden (nl)
Esperanto: polemika
Estonian: vastuoluline
Faroese: umstríddur
Finnish: kiistelty (fi) , kiistanalainen (fi)
French: controversé (fr) , polémique (fr) m or f
Galician: controvertido m
Georgian: საკამათო ( saḳamato )
German: umstritten (de) , kontrovers (de)
Greek: αμφιλεγόμενος (el) ( amfilegómenos )
Gujarati: વિવાદાસ્પદ ( vivādāspad )
Hebrew: שָׁנוּי בְּמַחֲלֹקֶת (he) m ( shanúy bemaḥlóqet ) , שְׁנוּיָּה בְּמַחֲלֹקֶת f ( shnuya bemaḥlóqet )
Hindi: विवादास्पद (hi) ( vivādāspad )
Hungarian: vitás (hu) , vitatott (hu) , nagy port kavaró
Icelandic: umdeildur
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Irish: conspóideach aighneasach
Italian: controverso (it)
Japanese: 論争の的の
Khmer: ចម្រូងចម្រាស់ ( cɑmrooŋ cɑmreah )
Korean: 논쟁의 여지가있는 ( nonjaeng-ui yeojigaissneun )
Latin: contrōversus
Latvian: pretrunīgs strīdīgs kontroversiāls
Maori: whakawehewehe kūraruraru
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kontroversiell omstridt omstridd
Nynorsk: kontroversiell omstridd
Polish: kontrowersyjny (pl)
Portuguese: polémico (pt) ( Portugal ) , polêmico (pt) ( Brazil ) , controverso (pt)
Romanian: controversabil (ro) m or n controversat (ro) m or n discutabil (ro) m or n polemizat m or n
Russian: спо́рный (ru) ( spórnyj ) , сомни́тельный (ru) ( somnítelʹnyj ) , дискуссио́нный (ru) ( diskussiónnyj )
Scottish Gaelic: connsachail connspaideach
Serbo-Croatian: kontrovèrzan (sh)
Slovak: kontraverzný sporný
Spanish: controversial controvertido (es) , polémico (es)
Swedish: kontroversiell (sv) , omstridd (sv)
Turkish: tartışmalı (tr) , ihtilaflı çelişmeli (tr)
Ukrainian: спі́рний ( spírnyj ) , дискусі́йний ( dyskusíjnyj )
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: dadleuol (cy)
See also
Further reading
“controversial ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam , 1913 , →OCLC “controversial ”, in The Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. , 1911 , →OCLC
Spanish
Adjective
controversial m or f masculine and feminine plural controversiales
( Latin America ) controversial Synonym: controvertido 2015 El Pais (Uruguay) [1] Esto comienza con los acuerdos de (protección de) inversión que han sido controversiales por cerca de veinte años. (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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