contentious
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine adjective
Likely to cause disagreement or debate among those involved.
The choice of management plan remained contentious between the two teams at handover.
Law adjective
Likely to cause disagreement or involving opposing arguments.
The most contentious issue was whether the tribunal had jurisdiction at all.
Business adjective
Likely to cause disagreement or argument.
Indemnity clauses were the most contentious part of the entire contract.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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