controversial

US: /ˌkɑntɹəˈvɝʃəɫ/

UK: /kˌɒntɹəvˈɜːʃə‍l/


English - Vietnamese dictionary

controversial /,kɔntrə'və:ʃəl/
  • tính từ
    • có thể gây ra tranh luận, có thể bàn cãi được (vấn đề...)
    • ưa tranh cãi, thích tranh luận (người)
    • a controversial personelity
      • một nhân vật được mọi người bàn đến nhiều, một nhân vật lắm kẻ ưa nhưng cũng nhiều người ghét

Advanced English dictionary

+ adjective
causing a lot of angry public discussion and disagreement: a highly controversial issue / topic / decision / book + one of the most controversial of London's new office blocks + a controversial plan to build a new road + Winston Churchill and Richard Nixon were both controversial figures.
Antonym: NON-CONTROVERSIAL, UNCONTROVERSIAL
controversially adverb: Punishments for prisoners include loss of privileges and, more controversially, the stopping of visits.

Thesaurus dictionary

adj.
1 debatable, disputable, questionable, moot, doubtful, unsettled:
Who will run the department is a controversial matter.
2 polemical, dialectic, litigious, factious:
She has studied the controversial writings of the 19th-century feminists.
3 disputatious, argumentative, contentious; provocative:
Race relations have remained a controversial issue for centuries.

Collocation

VERBS

be, prove | become | remain

ADV.

extremely, highly, very
a highly controversial subject
| rather, somewhat | politically


Concise dictionary

‚kɒntrə'vɜːʃl
adj.
+marked by or capable of arousing controversy

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