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What is the adjective for controversies?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs controvert, controverse and controversialize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

controversal
  1. (obsolete, rare) Facing opposite directions.
  2. (obsolete) Subject to controversy; controversial.
  3. Examples:
      4. “There must be no controversal graffiti on any car, a half-roll cage is advisable, but not essential at this early stage.”
      “There are different possible temporal associations between epileptic seizures andheadache attacks wich have given rise to uncleare or controversal terminologies.”
      “The temple of Janus with his two controversal faces might now not unsignificantly be set open.”
controvertible
  1. Open to questioning; that which can be denied, challenged, or disputed.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. debatable, questionable, disputable, arguable, moot, doubtful, issuable, negotiable, doubtable, uncertain, controversial, contentious, dubious, open to question, unsettled, open to debate, iffy, disputed, undecided, open to doubt, open to discussion, equivocal, unresolved, unsure, suspect, dubitable, borderline, unconfirmed, problematical, contestable, unclear, dodgy, undetermined, contended, vexed, polemical, problematic, in doubt, hot-button, in dispute, subject to debate, eristic, fishy, unestablished, unsound, polemic, unreliable, mootable, unproven, vague … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “But he hastily goes on to an assertion which seems arbitrary and controvertible.”
      “Otherwise, it can grow unbounded and produce results that are less meaningful and more controvertible.”
      “It allows you to measure a problem, gives you facts that are less controvertible.”
controversial
  1. Arousing controversy—a debate or discussion of opposing opinions.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. contentious, debatable, disputable, disputed, disputatious, arguable, contended, controvertible, delicate, difficult, divisive, dubious, polemical, sensitive, dubitable, emotive, moot, polemic, provocative, questionable, suspect, tendentious, vexed, awkward, contestable, contested, debateable, problematic, argued, challenged, debated, doubtable, doubtful, heated, hot, notorious, questioned, uncertain, hot-button, under discussion, at issue, in dispute, open to discussion, open to question, unsettled, undecided, unresolved, open to debate, iffy, unsure … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The controversial move is one aspect of a massive drive to get doctors to intervene with heavy drinkers.”
      “Though original in his views, he too often damaged his cause with his controversial temperament.”
      “It's a controversial portrayal of the great man which isn't above hinting he had a dark side.”
controversiall
  1. Obsolete form of controversial.
controversary
  1. (obsolete) controversial
  2. Examples:
      3. “The indirect approach allows the discussion to go on with both parties keeping their face despite controversary opinions.”
      “Among experts, there is some controversary regarding what the IPv4 replacement standard will actually be.”
      “These controversary points I have rather crossed in my way, than taken along with me.”
controverted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of controvert
  2. Synonyms:
      3. refuted, contradicted, disproved, disproven, rebutted, denied, confuted, disconfirmed, challenged, opposed, disputed, contested, countered, confounded, questioned, oppugned, argued, broke, brake, broken, debated, discussed, made a nonsense of, flew in the face of, flown in the face of, negated, discredited, negatived, debunked, invalidated, belied, shot down, shot full of holes, repudiated, exploded, shot down in flames, disaffirmed, disavowed, rejected, disclaimed, gainsaid, quashed, contravened, called into question, falsified, disowned, disallowed, demolished, disagreed with, exposed … more
controverting
  1. present participle of controvert
  2. Synonyms:
      3. refuting, contradicting, disproving, rebutting, denying, confuting, disconfirming, challenging, opposing, disputing, contesting, countering, confounding, questioning, oppugning, arguing, breaking, debating, discussing, making a nonsense of, flying in the face of, negating, discrediting, negativing, debunking, invalidating, gainsaying, belying, shooting down, shooting full of holes, repudiating, exploding, shooting down in flames, disaffirming, giving the lie to, disavowing, rejecting, disclaiming, quashing, proving false, contravening, calling into question, falsifying, blowing out of the water, driving a coach and horses through, blowing sky-high, disowning, disallowing, demolishing, disagreeing with … more
controversialized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of controversialize
controversializing
  1. present participle of controversialize
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