polemic

polemic is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology.
2. adjective. Engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations; as, a polemic writer.
3. noun. One who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.
4. noun. A polemic argument or controversy.
5. noun. a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma)
6. noun. a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)

   Synonyms: polemicist, polemist

7. adjective. of or involving dispute or controversy

   Synonyms: polemical

Synonyms

polemicist, polemist, polemical

Anagrams

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Common word forms

polemics, polemical, polemicise, polemicize

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