All controversy synonyms

noun controversy

• debate — A debate is a discussion about a subject on which people have different views.
• squabble — to engage in a petty quarrel.
• fuss — an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
• discussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
• argument — An argument is a statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.
• strife — vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
• wrangle — to argue or dispute, especially in a noisy or angry manner.
• difference — the state or relation of being different; dissimilarity: There is a great difference between the two.
• quarrel — a square-headed bolt or arrow, formerly used with a crossbow.
• wrangling — to argue or dispute, especially in a noisy or angry manner.
• bickering — to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
• contention — Someone's contention is the idea or opinion that they are expressing in an argument or discussion.
• beef — Beef is the meat of a cow, bull, or ox.
• polemic — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
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• scrap — a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
• scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
• rumpus — a noisy or violent disturbance; commotion; uproar: There was a terrible rumpus going on upstairs.
• brush — A brush is an object which has a large number of bristles or hairs fixed to it. You use brushes for painting, for cleaning things, and for tidying your hair.
• altercation — An altercation is a noisy argument or disagreement.
• words — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
• miff — petulant displeasure; ill humor.
• disputation — the act of disputing or debating; verbal controversy; discussion or debate.
• hurrah — to shout “hurrah.”.
• flak — antiaircraft fire, especially as experienced by the crews of combat airplanes at which the fire is directed.
• row — record
• falling-out — a quarrel or estrangement between persons formerly in close association with one another.
• disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
• storm — Theodore Woldsen [tey-aw-dawr vawlt-suh n] /ˈteɪ ɔˌdɔr ˈvɔlt sən/ (Show IPA), 1817–88, German poet and novelist.
• hullabaloo — a clamorous noise or disturbance; uproar.
• dispute — to engage in argument or debate.