Usually means: Debate aimed at winning only.
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  1. eristical: Merriam-Webster
  2. eristical: Collins English Dictionary
  3. eristical: Vocabulary.com
  4. eristical: Wordnik
  5. eristical: Wiktionary
  6. eristical: Dictionary.com
  7. Eristical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. eristical: Rhymezone
  9. Eristical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. eristical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. eristical: FreeDictionary.org
  12. eristical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. eristical: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from WordNet (eristical)

▸ adjective:  given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments

Similar:
controversiall, dissensious, erratick, enthusiastick, heretickal, antagonistick, erratique, satirick, bellicous, schismaticall, more...

Opposite:
harmonious, agreeable, cooperative, conciliatory

Types:
Sophism, Paradox, Antinomy, Aporia, Apophasis, Rhetorical question, Zeno's paradoxes, more...

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Similar:
controversiall, dissensious, erratick, enthusiastick, heretickal, antagonistick, erratique, satirick, bellicous, schismaticall, more...

Opposite:
harmonious, agreeable, cooperative, conciliatory

Types:
Sophism, Paradox, Antinomy, Aporia, Apophasis, Rhetorical question, Zeno's paradoxes, more...



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