polemical

• polemicall (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /pʌˈlɛmɪk.ʌl/

polemical (comparative more polemical, superlative most polemical)

1. related to argument or controversy; containing polemic, being polemic
   1. being an attempt to evaluate the arguments comprehensively
      • 1996, Igor Diakonoff; Leonid Kogan, “Addenda et Corrigenda to Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary by V. Orel and O. Stolbova”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, volume 146, page 25:

        […] in order to give a comprehensive critical and polemical analysis of the Dictionary in question, a whole book would be needed.

   2. (somewhat derogative) prone to causing disputes; inclined to causing the expression of opposing opinions, disputatious, contentious, edgy
      • 2012, Craig L. Blomberg, Interpreting the Parables →ISBN, page 48:

        Not only are all these allegations worded in an unnecessarily polemical style, they are also simply false

      • 2013, Johannes Zachhuber, Theology as Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany →ISBN, page 57:

        Remarkable here is the rather polemical choice of words […]

polemical (plural polemicals)

1. A diatribe or polemic.

• polemical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• polemical in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911