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This describes a person who often argues, or who likes arguing. It is a habit, not one fight. An argumentative friend will push back, pick at your words, and turn small talk into a debate. In everyday English it can sound a little : you are saying this person is hard to have a quiet conversation with. Teachers may use it for a student who always wants to disagree. Though actually, in old or legal writing it can just mean “to do with reasons and arguments,” with no bad feeling. That use is rare now. If you call a living person argumentative, most listeners will hear a complaint.
愛爭辯的、好辯的（口語也說愛抬槓）
組成argument + -ative. Argument here is a quarrel or a set of reasons; -ative means “having that quality.” So the word is “having the quality of argument.” It came through Medieval Latin and Middle English.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
argumentativeadj/ˌɑːɡjʊˈmɛntətɪv/
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Of or relating to argumentation; specifically, presenting a logical argument or line of reasoning; argumentive, discursive.
- I proceed next to treat of the argumentative or reaſoning Part of a Diſcourſe. In whatever place, or on whatever ſubject one ſpeaks, this beyond doubt is of the greateſt conſequence.
- There muſt be a Special Demurrer to a Negative Pregnant, that is, a Negative Plea, which doth alſo contain in it an Affirmative; and to an Argumentative Plea, that is a Plea which concludes nothing directly, but only by Way of Argument or Reaſoning, for the Court will intend every Plea to be good till the contrary doth appear.
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Prone to argue or dispute.
- Your host was in his turn eloquent,—authoritative,—facetious,—argumentative,—precatory,—pathetic, above all, pertinacious.
- He found that in an argumentative discussion, when an adversary responded argumentatively, male and female subjects did not differ in their preference for message strategies. However, when the adversary responded with verbal aggression, male and female subjects differed in their responses; female subjects were more likely to select an argumentative strategy, while male subjects were more likely to select verbally aggressive strategies.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。