Controversial vs Important - What's the difference?
controversial | important |
Arousing controversy—a debate or discussion of opposing opinions.
* (rfdate) Macaulay:
Having relevant and crucial value.
:
*
*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 *1988, (Robert Ferro), Second Son :
*:For this was the most important thing, that when a person felt strongly about an issue in life, it mustn’t be ignored by others; for if it was, everything subsequent to it would turn out badly, even though there should seem to be no direct connection.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title=
As adjectives the difference between controversial and important
is that controversial is arousing controversy—a debate or discussion of opposing opinions while important is important.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
* *important
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
Katrina G. Claw
Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}