eristic

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Provoking strife, controversy or discord.
2. noun One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious.
3. noun A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest.

Similar words

controversialist disputatious contentious conflictive flammable provocative hot-button provocatory incensive inflammatory

Often followed by

and dialogue of argument arguments is or in type

Word family

eristical eristically eristics