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say it: puh-LEM-ik
polemic is a noun and adjective meaning "a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)". It is pronounced /pəˈlɛmɪk/ — puh-LEM-ik. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)
a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma)
of or involving dispute or controversy
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for polemic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.