noncontentious

1. 1.

   of persons; not given to controversy

   Similarunargumentative

Questions about noncontentious

What does noncontentious mean?

noncontentious means "of persons; not given to controversy".

How many syllables are in noncontentious?

noncontentious has 5 syllables and divides as non-con-ten-ti-ous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is noncontentious a common word?

noncontentious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.