argue

argue is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.
2. intransitive verb. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as, you may argue with your friend without convincing him.
3. transitive verb. To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued.
4. transitive verb. To prove or evince; too manifest or exhibit by inference, deduction, or reasoning.
5. transitive verb. To persuade by reasons; as, to argue a man into a different opinion.
6. transitive verb. To blame; to accuse; to charge with.
7. verb. present reasons and arguments

   Synonyms: reason

8. verb. give evidence of

   "The evidence argues for your claim"

   "The results indicate the need for more work"

   Synonyms: indicate

9. verb. have an argument about something

   Synonyms: contend, debate, fence

Synonyms

reason, indicate, contend, debate, fence

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in argue:

auger, gaure, rugae

Common word forms

argued, arguer, argues, arguing

Words from these letters

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