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Contentious vs Disputant - What's the difference?

contentious | disputant |

As adjectives the difference between contentious and disputant

is that contentious is marked by heated arguments or controversy while disputant is disputing; engaged in controversy.

As a noun disputant is

a participant in a dispute.

contentious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Marked by heated arguments or controversy.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 19 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Ukraine , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Ukraine, however, will complain long and hard about a contentious second-half incident when Marko Devic's shot clearly crossed the line before it was scrambled away by John Terry, only for the officials to remain unmoved.}}
  • Given to struggling with others out of jealousy or discord.

    • Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * contentiously * contentiousness

    Related terms

    * contend * contender * contention

    References

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    disputant

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A participant in a dispute.
  • * 1893, , Collaboration [http://www.henryjames.org.uk/collab/CLtext.htm]
    • One of the liveliest scenes of the performance was the evening, last winter, on which I became aware that one of my compatriots – an American, my good friend Alfred Bonus – was engaged in a controversy somewhat acrimonious, on a literary subject, with Herman Heidenmauer, the young composer who had been playing to us divinely a short time before and whom I thought of neither as a disputant nor as an Englishman.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Disputing; engaged in controversy.
    • (Milton)
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