different between disputant vs disputative

English

Etymology

dispute +? -ant

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /d??spjut?nt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??spju?.t?nt/

Noun

disputant (plural disputants)

1. A participant in a dispute.
   • 1893, Henry James, Collaboration [1]

     One of the liveliest scenes of the performance was the evening, last winter, on which I became aware that one of my compatriots – an American, my good friend Alfred Bonus – was engaged in a controversy somewhat acrimonious, on a literary subject, with Herman Heidenmauer, the young composer who had been playing to us divinely a short time before and whom I thought of neither as a disputant nor as an Englishman.

Adjective

disputant (comparative more disputant, superlative most disputant)

1. Disputing; engaged in controversy.

Catalan

Verb

disputant

1. present participle of disputar

French

Verb

disputant

1. present participle of disputer

Latin

Verb

disputant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of disput?

English

Etymology

From Latin disputativus (“pertaining to a dispute”)

Adjective

disputative (comparative more disputative, superlative most disputative)

1. Tending to dispute.

Related terms

• dispute
• disputable
• disputant
• disputation
• disputatious