Concept cluster: Positive qualities > Controversy
n
(obsolete) Contradiction; gainsaying
n
The act or fact of setting aside as spurious; rejection as invalid.
adv
(colloquial, followed by the preposition to) Known; In (someone's) awareness.
adj
That confutes
n
confutation
n
(marketing) A resistance on the part of consumers toward adopting or using a particular product.
adj
controversial; contentious; debated
v
Pronunciation spelling of contradict. [To deny the truth or validity of (a statement or statements).]
adj
Disputed; questioned.
n
The property of being contragredient.
adj
That contravenes
adj
(obsolete) Subject to controversy; controversial.
adj
(obsolete) controversial
n
(obsolete) Controversy.
n
(countable) A disagreement or argument.
n
(chiefly philosophy, uncountable) Introduction of evidence which conclusively establishes that a belief or hypothesis is not true or which diminishes the acceptability of a belief or hypothesis.
adj
(mathematics) Of opposite sign.
v
To make unequal.
adj
Shown to be false
adj
(of territory) Claimed by more than one sovereign state.
adj
disagreeing; contrary; differing
adj
Disagreeing from something given; differing.
adv
From the negative.
v
(intransitive) To take exception, to object (to or against).
adj
Acting to exclude something
adj
Occurring outside the law; not governed by law; lawless.
adj
Split into groups which disagree.
n
(law) In United States trademark law, the characteristic of a trademark being generic, and therefore unregistrable.
v
To oppose; to resist
n
An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
n
The accidental omission, when copying a text, of a passage between repeated words or phrases, as the eye skips from one to the next without noticing the words between.
n
Negation that reinforces, rather than cancels, other negation in a sentence.
adj
(law, of a name) wrongly spelled, but sufficiently correct to identify someone.
n
(philosophy) A consequent of a contrary.
n
(uncountable, derogatory) Assertions that have the appearance, but not the actuality, of scientific support.
adv
Contrary to their desires or ambitions.
n
(US, law) Synonym of Dormant Commerce Clause
n
Something that is negated.
adj
Used to show that an anterior explanation does not apply or does not adequately describe the situation.
n
(archaic) opposition
n
Initialism of point refuted a thousand times.
n
(uncountable) The condition of being precluded.
n
(figuratively, informal) A state of doubt or uncertainty.
n
Something that is to be refuted.
n
An act of refuting or disproving; the disproving of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; evidence of falseness.
adj
(law) Opposed or in conflict.
adj
(less common) Alternative form of resistant [Which makes resistance or offers opposition.]
adj
(obsolete) self-contradictory; inconsistent
v
To doubt; to pretend to doubt everything.
n
The practice of being a spectator, of watching rather than taking part.
adv
Based on precise facts, which, however, may be contrary to common misbelief or to a traditional name.
adv
In a tentative and experimental manner.
n
(copyright law) A threshold of creativity and originality that has to be met in order for a work to be considered a work of art and thus copyrightable.
adj
Going beyond what is authorized or set out by law.
n
(law) The status of being unconstitutional, of not being in accord with the provisions of the appropriate constitution
n
(typography) A spelling or textual error.

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