Usually means: Debater skilled in provocative arguments.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. controversialist: Merriam-Webster
  2. controversialist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. controversialist: Collins English Dictionary
  4. controversialist: Vocabulary.com
  5. controversialist: Wordnik
  6. controversialist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. controversialist: Wiktionary
  8. controversialist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Controversialist, controversialist: Dictionary.com
  10. Controversialist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Controversialist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. controversialist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. controversialist: Rhymezone
  14. Controversialist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. controversialist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. controversialist: FreeDictionary.org
  17. controversialist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Controversialist: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. controversialist: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. controversialist: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (controversialist)

▸ noun:  One who regularly engages in public controversies.

Similar:
disputant, controvertist, controverter, polemicist, polemician, polemist, firebrand, politico, confrontationist, provocationist, more...

Opposite:
peacemaker, conciliator, mediator, arbitrator

Types:
provocateur, contrarian, agitator, instigator, firebrand, zealot, radical, extremist, more...

Adjectives:
great, ablest, religious, keen, political, formidable, theological, protestant, vigorous, famous, learned

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Similar:
disputant, controvertist, controverter, polemicist, polemician, polemist, firebrand, politico, confrontationist, provocationist, more...

Opposite:
peacemaker, conciliator, mediator, arbitrator

Types:
provocateur, contrarian, agitator, instigator, firebrand, zealot, radical, extremist, more...

Adjectives:
great, ablest, religious, keen, political, formidable, theological, protestant, vigorous, famous, learned



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