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argumentative

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective argumentative has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

argumentativea. 
  •  Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Given to argument; characterized by argument; disputatious; as, an argumentative writer.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

argumentative, adj.
1 fond of arguing; quarrelsome.
2 using methodical reasoning.

Derivative
argumentatively adv. argumentativeness n.
Etymology
F argumentatif -ive or LL argumentativus (as ARGUMENT, -ATIVE)

THESAURUS

argumentative

argumental, belligerent, cat-and-dog, cat-and-doggish, combative, contentious, controversial, dialectic, disagreeable, disputatious, eristic, ill-humored, litigious, logomachic, pilpulistic, polemic, polemical, pro and con, quarrelsome, scrappy, testy

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Reasoning,

N reasoning ratiocination rationalism, dialectics, induction, generalization, discussion, comment, ventilation, inquiry, argumentation, controversy, debate, polemics, wrangling, contention, logomachy, disputation, disceptation, paper war, art of reasoning, logic, process of reasoning, train of reasoning, chain of reasoning, deduction, induction, abduction, synthesis, analysis, argument, case, plaidoyer, opening, lemma, proposition, terms, premises, postulate, data, starting point, principle, inference, prosyllogism, syllogism, enthymeme, sorites, dilemma, perilepsis, a priori reasoning, reductio ad absurdum, horns of a dilemma, argumentum ad hominem, comprehensive argument, empirema, epagoge, reasoner, logician, dialectician, disputant, controversialist, controvertist, wrangler, arguer, debater polemic, casuist, rationalist, scientist, eristic, logical sequence, good case, correct just reasoning, sound reasoning, valid reasoning, cogent reasoning, logical reasoning, forcible reasoning, persuasive reasoning, persuasory reasoning, consectary reasoning, conclusive, subtle reasoning, force of argument, strong point, strong argument, persuasive argument, arguments, reasons, pros and cons, reasoning, rationalistic, argumentative, controversial, dialectic, polemical, discursory, discursive, disputatious, Aristotelian, eristic, eristical, debatable, controvertible, logical, relevant, for, because, hence, whence, seeing that, since, sith, then thence so, for that reason, for this reason, for which reason, for as, inasmuch as, whereas, ex concesso, considering, in consideration of, therefore, wherefore, consequently, ergo, thus, accordingly, a fortiori, in conclusion, in fine, finally, after all, au bout du compt, on the whole, taking one thing with another, ab actu ad posse valet consecutio, per troppo dibatter la verita si perde, troppo disputare la verita fa errare.

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