polemical
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /pəˈlɛmɪkəl/
美 /pəˈlɛmɪkəl/|/pəˈlemɪkəl/
英文释义
名词 n.
- A diatribe or polemic.
形容词 adj.
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Related to argument or controversy; containing polemic, being polemic.; Being an attempt to evaluate the arguments comprehensively.
— […] in order to give a comprehensive critical and polemical analysis of the Dictionary in question, a whole book would be needed.
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Related to argument or controversy; containing polemic, being polemic.; Prone to causing disputes; inclined to causing the expression of opposing opinions, disputatious, contentious, edgy.
— And though the annals of the period do not show us that there was less ale drawn, or less canary called for; men got dry with the heat of polemical discussion, and drunk with a text, not the fag end of a ballad, in their mouths; and people made a sort of morality of straight hair, long faces, and sad-coloured garments.
词源
词源 1
From polemic + -al. By surface analysis, polem- + -ic + -al.
词源 2
From polemic + -al. By surface analysis, polem- + -ic + -al.
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