The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word MILITANT which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1995.
Contentious crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| MILITANT | 50 % | 8 |
| QUARRELSOME | 50 % | 11 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Contentious
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- controversial
- disputative
- disputatious
- aggressive
- combative
- battleful
- bellicose
- argumentative
- litigious
- dispute
- contested
- controversy
Crossword Answer definitions
MILITANT noun- A soldier, a combatant.
- An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction.
- Specifically, someone who supports the Trotskyist political view expressed in the newspaper Militant, or who engages in aggressive left-wing politics.
- Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike.
- Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
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More clues leading to the result MILITANT
- Activist, often
- Rebel
- Supportive in an aggressive way
- Combatively supportive
- Combative
- Fighting.
- Aggressive.
- Contentious
- Unlike doves
- Vigorously aggressive, as in support of a cause