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Oppositional vs Argumentative - What's the difference?

oppositional | argumentative |

As adjectives the difference between oppositional and argumentative

is that oppositional is of, pertaining to, or exhibiting opposition while argumentative is prone to argue or dispute.

oppositional

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting opposition
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 10, author=Steven Lee Myers, title=Kasparov, Building Opposition to Putin, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=And he has brought to oppositional politics the same energy and aggression that characterized his chess, attacking Mr. Putin and the Kremlin — or the regime, as he repeatedly calls it — with language rarely spoken so bluntly in Russia. }}

    Derived terms

    *oppositionally *oppositionality

    argumentative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Prone to argue or dispute
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * disputatious * dispute