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A disputatious person likes to argue, and tends to look for a fight in the talk. They pick at small points, push back, and enjoy the clash. The word is quite formal and a little old-fashioned; it almost always carries a — we rarely say it as a compliment. You will meet it in books and careful essays more than in speech. Though actually, it describes a habit of arguing, not one single disagreement: a disputatious colleague is like that on many days, not just today. In ordinary English, people are more likely to say argumentative.
好爭辯的（書面，帶貶義）
組成From disputation: disputati(on) + -ous (full of / having that quality) — so “full of arguing”.
同家族的字
- disputationthe noun this adjective is built from
- disputethe verb/noun for arguing about something
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。
disputatiousadj/ˌdɪspjʊˈteɪʃəs/
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Of or relating to something that is in question as to its intent or value.
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Inclined to argue or debate; provoking debate.
- He was followed by a disputatious gentleman, who had the temerity to maintain before the royal misocapnist (the Counterblast had not as yet issued from the monarch's lips, but his anti-nicotian prejudices were well known,) the thesis, that "tobacco must needs be good;" proceeding to his proof "by enumeration or induction, because Kings, Princes, Nobles, Earles, Lords, Knights, Gentlemen of all Countries and Nations, reckoning a number, loved it."
- Certainly there have been bitterly contested elections in this country before. Party spirit is always rife, and in such vivid, excitable, disputatious communities as ours are, and I trust always will be, it is the very soul of freedom.
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。