Antonyms for controversial
ˌkɒn trəˈvɜr ʃəl, -si əlcon·tro·ver·sial

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1. controversialadjective

   Antonyms:
   noncontroversial, uncontroversial

2. controversialadjective

   Antonyms:
   noncontroversial, uncontroversial

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.3 / 3 votes

1. controversialadjective

   marked by or capable of arousing controversy

   "the issue of the death penalty is highly controversial"; "Rushdie's controversial book"; "a controversial decision on affirmative action"

   Antonyms:
   unchallenged, stipulatory, unquestioned, uncontroversial, unchallengeable, undisputed, noncontroversial, agreed upon(p)

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. controversialadjective

   Synonyms:
   disputatious, polemical

How to use controversial in a sentence?

1. Thomas Shomo:

   You know he [Boykin] is an outspoken person who has many controversial views, he has expressed those controversial views in various forms over the last nine years and the college has not reacted to those.

2. Eric Flannery:

   I just said, everybody is welcome, it's nothing controversial, it's just about every bar and restaurant in the United States should be doing welcoming everybody.

3. Hillary Clinton on Tuesday:

   This means so much to me, Steve, it really is very much an honor to have your support and your endorsement because you try to bring issues as controversial as gun control and voting rights and so much else to people's attention. And I really appreciate that.

4. Chris Hayes:

   What we have to do to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change is to cut emissions in half in 12 years, twelve years. Thats the project we have been tasked with by the Earth. Now has come a bold new policy proposal that might be the most controversial thing in American politics at the moment. Youve probably heard about it. Its called the Green New Deal. Some people call it a socialist monster; some people call it our only hope for survival here in the way of life that we hold dear.

5. Bill Burns:

   There is the particularly pernicious practice of going after individual career officers, either because they worked on controversial issues in the last administration, or as in the case of Masha Yovanovitch, a terrific apolitical career diplomat who was doing her job extraordinarily well, were attacked, deeply unfairly, for political reasons, we have career people who did their jobs, followed their instructions, served their country loyally, and they are being treated as pawns in a political struggle.

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