debateful

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UK[dɪˈbeɪtfəɫ]

adjective

Contentious, argumentative, full of strife.

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Meanings

adjectivedebateful (comparative more debateful, superlative most debateful)

comparative more debateful · superlative most debateful

  1. obsoleteContentious, argumentative, full of strife.

    Debatefull strife, and cruell enmitie / The famous name of knighthood fowly shend [...].

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
argumentativecontentiousdiscordantdisputatiousquarrelsome

Origin

From debate + -ful.

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Cite this entry
APA

debateful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/debateful

MLA

“debateful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/debateful. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “debateful,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/debateful.

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