polemical

1. 1.

   of or involving dispute or controversy

   Synonymspolemic

   Similarcontroversial

Questions about polemical

What does polemical mean?

polemical means "of or involving dispute or controversy".

How many syllables are in polemical?

polemical has 4 syllables: po-lem-i-cal. The stress falls on "lem". In IPA it is /pəˈlɛməkəl/.

What is another word for polemical?

Close synonyms include polemic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is polemical a common word?

polemical 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.