controversial

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 9.49 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Arousing or likely to arouse controversy.
2. adjective Engaging in or given to controversy; disputatious, argumentative.
3. noun Someone or something (such as a matter or an argument) that is controversial.

Similar words

polemic contentious polemical disputed disputable debatable moot arguable contested controversy

Often followed by

issues and issue in subject figure question questions nature

Word family

controversialism controversialisms controversialist controversialists controversially controversies controversy