Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: omstrede
- Amharic: contentious
- Arabic: الخلافية
- Azerbaijani: mübahisəli
- Bashkir: бәхәсле
- Belarusian: спрэчныя
- Bulgarian: спорни
- Bengali: কলহপ্রিয়
- Bosnian: sporno
- Catalan: el contenciós
- Cebuano: makig-awayon
- Czech: diskutabilní
- Welsh: dadleuol
- Danish: omstridt
- German: umstritten
- Greek: αμφιλεγόμενο
- Esperanto: disputiga
- Spanish: polémico
- Estonian: vaielda
- Basque: auzi
- Persian: ستیز
- Finnish: kiistanalainen
- French: controversée
- Irish: conspóideacha
- Scottish Gaelic: contentious
- Galician: contencioso
- Gujarati: વિવાદાસ્પદ
- Hebrew: במחלוקת
- Hindi: विवादास्पद
- Croatian: sporna
- Haitian: kontwovèsyal
- Hungarian: vitatott
- Armenian: վիճահարույց
- Indonesian: perdebatan
- Icelandic: umdeildar
- Italian: controversa
- Japanese: 紛争
- Javanese: contentious
- Georgian: სადავო
- Kazakh: даулы
- Khmer: ញុាំ
- Kannada: ವಿವಾದಾಸ್ಪದ
- Korean: 논
- Kyrgyz: талаш-тартыш
- Latin: contentione
- Luxembourgish: ëmstridden
- Lao: ໃຕ້
- Lithuanian: ginčo
- Latvian: sacīkstes
- Malagasy: nahabe resaka momba ny
- Mari: ӱчашыман
- Maori: totohe
- Macedonian: непријатните
- Malayalam: contentious
- Mongolian: маргаантай
- Marathi: वादग्रस्त
- Hill Mari: спорный
- Malay: perbalahan
- Maltese: kontenzjużi
- Burmese: အငြင်း
- Nepali: contentious
- Dutch: omstreden
- Norwegian: omstridt
- Punjabi: ਵਿਵਾਦ
- Papiamento: polémico
- Polish: kontrowersyjne
- Portuguese: contenciosa
- Romanian: contencios
- Russian: спорные
- Sinhalese: විවාදාත්මක
- Slovak: sporné
- Slovenian: pravdnih
- Albanian: kontestimore
- Serbian: контроверзни
- Sundanese: contentious
- Swedish: omstridd
- Swahili: utata
- Tamil: குமாரசாமிக்கும்
- Telugu: వివాదస్పద
- Tajik: баҳснок
- Thai: contentious
- Tagalog: palatutol
- Turkish: çekişmeli
- Tatar: бәхәсле
- Udmurt: ченгешонъёс
- Ukrainian: спірні
- Urdu: متنازعہ
- Uzbek: munozarali
- Vietnamese: tranh cãi
- Xhosa: contentious
- Yiddish: קריגעריש
- Chinese: 有争议的
Synonyms, close and similar words for contentious
- moot
- dispute
- questionable
- argumentative
- vexed
- controversial
- disputable
- deniable
- contestable
- litigious
- confrontational
- discordant
- arguable
- debatable
- objectionable
- quarrelsome
- peevish
- petulant
- shrewish
- querulous
- cantankerous
- absurd
- contested
- polemical
- polemic