Controversial vs Contested - What's the difference?
controversial | contested |
Arousing controversy—a debate or discussion of opposing opinions.
* (rfdate) Macaulay:
Contested is a synonym of controversial.
As adjectives the difference between controversial and contested
is that controversial is arousing controversy—a debate or discussion of opposing opinions while contested is controversial; contentious; debated.As a verb contested is
past tense of contest.controversial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Whole libraries of controversial books.