debateful

English

Etymology

From debate +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [dɪˈbeɪtfəɫ]

Adjective

debateful (comparative more debateful, superlative most debateful)

1. (obsolete) Contentious, argumentative, full of strife.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Debatefull strife, and cruell enmitie / The famous name of knighthood fowly shend [...].