controversial
US: /ˌkɑntɹəˈvɝʃəɫ/
UK: /kˌɒntɹəvˈɜːʃəl/
UK: /kˌɒntɹəvˈɜːʃəl/
English Vietnamese dictionary
controversial /,kɔntrə'və:ʃəl/
- tính từ
- có thể gây ra tranh luận, có thể bàn cãi được (vấn đề...)
- ưa tranh cãi, thích tranh luận (người)
- a controversial personelity
- một nhân vật được mọi người bàn đến nhiều, một nhân vật lắm kẻ ưa nhưng cũng nhiều người ghét
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective
causing a lot of angry public discussion and disagreement: a highly controversial issue / topic / decision / book + one of the most controversial of London's new office blocks + a controversial plan to build a new road + Winston Churchill and Richard Nixon were both controversial figures.
Antonym: NON-CONTROVERSIAL, UNCONTROVERSIAL
controversially adverb: Punishments for prisoners include loss of privileges and, more controversially, the stopping of visits.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 debatable, disputable, questionable, moot, doubtful, unsettled:
Who will run the department is a controversial matter.
2 polemical, dialectic, litigious, factious:
She has studied the controversial writings of the 19th-century feminists.
3 disputatious, argumentative, contentious; provocative:
Race relations have remained a controversial issue for centuries.
Collocation dictionary
VERBS
be, prove | become | remain
ADV.
extremely, highly, very
a highly controversial subject
| rather, somewhat | politically
Concise English dictionary
‚kɒntrə'vɜːʃl
adj.
+marked by or capable of arousing controversy
