controvertido

adj.

controversial, questionable, argumentary, debatable.

past part.

past participle of spanish verb: controvertir.

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controvertido

► participio pasado

1→ {{link=controvertir}}controvertir

► adjetivo

1 controversial

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(f. - controvertida)

adj.

controversial

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ADJ controversial

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-da adjetivo [ser] <persona/tema> controversial; <negociaciones> full of controversy

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= controversial, divisive, contested, vexed, challenging.

Ex. The last 3 years while grants were available saw a rise in loans, readers and outreach services, a controversial stock revision and scrapping were carried out and a PC was taken in use.

Ex. It is increasingly obvious that we are as a nation one and indivisible, that divisive tendencies are a thing of the past, but there are still too many inheritors of the old indifference, and who flinch at co-operation as at an evil.

Ex. Although it remains a contested subject, there have been changes in general opinion about faculty status over the past few decades.

Ex. A vexed area on which the present rules give no guidance is the publication produced as a result of a special programme or project.

Ex. Thus in an attentive reader literature is expansive, visionary, challenging, subversive, in the true and best sense.

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* cuestión controvertida = vexing question.

* tema controvertido = vexing issue.

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-da adjetivo [ser] <persona/tema> controversial; <negociaciones> full of controversy

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= controversial, divisive, contested, vexed, challenging.

Ex: The last 3 years while grants were available saw a rise in loans, readers and outreach services, a controversial stock revision and scrapping were carried out and a PC was taken in use.

Ex: It is increasingly obvious that we are as a nation one and indivisible, that divisive tendencies are a thing of the past, but there are still too many inheritors of the old indifference, and who flinch at co-operation as at an evil.

Ex: Although it remains a contested subject, there have been changes in general opinion about faculty status over the past few decades.

Ex: A vexed area on which the present rules give no guidance is the publication produced as a result of a special programme or project.

Ex: Thus in an attentive reader literature is expansive, visionary, challenging, subversive, in the true and best sense.

* cuestión controvertida = vexing question.

* tema controvertido = vexing issue.

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controvertido -da

adjective

[ SER] controversial

un escritor muy controvertido a highly controversial writer

el tema más controvertido en este momento the most widely debated subject of the moment

las negociaciones han sido largas y controvertidas the negotiations have been long and full of controversy

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controvertido

◊ -da adjetivo [ser] ‹persona/tema› controversial

controvertido,-a adjetivo controversial

'controvertido' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
controvertida
- controversial
English:
controversial
- vexed

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controvertido, -a adj

controversial;

es un pintor muy controvertido he's a very controversial painter

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controvertido

adj controversial

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controvertido, -da adj

: controversial