Controversial vs Conflicting - What's the difference?
controversial | conflicting |
Arousing controversy—a debate or discussion of opposing opinions.
* (rfdate) Macaulay:
Striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.
Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.
* 1999 , Herre van Oostendorp, Susan R. Goldman, The construction of mental representations during reading
*:On the other hand, the more effective the current activation vector is in reactivating the conflicting information, the more likely the two conflicting pieces of information are to be coactivated.
* 1841 , Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop Chapter 73
*:Of Sally Brass, conflicting rumours went abroad. Some said with confidence that she had gone down to the docks in male attire, and had become a female sailor; others darkly whispered that she had enlisted as a private in the second regiment of Foot Guards, and had been seen in uniform, and on duty, to wit, leaning on her musket and looking out of a sentry-box in St james's Park, one evening.
As adjectives the difference between controversial and conflicting
is that controversial is arousing controversy—a debate or discussion of opposing opinions while conflicting is striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.As a verb conflicting is
present participle of lang=en.controversial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Whole libraries of controversial books.
Usage notes
* Nouns often used with "controversial": topic, subject, work, author, method, etc.Synonyms
* contentious * contestedAntonyms
* uncontroversial * noncontroversial * incontrovertibleDerived terms
* controversialnessSee also
* disputatious * polemical * disputable * controvertible * debatableExternal links
* *conflicting
English
(Webster 1828)Adjective
(en adjective)- In the absence of all conflicting evidence.