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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs contend and contest which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

contentious
  1. Marked by heated arguments or controversy.
  2. Given to struggling with others out of jealousy or discord.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. debatable, controversial, disputable, moot, uncertain, unsettled, disputed, undecided, controvertible, unresolved, equivocal, unsure, borderline, vexed, polemical, contended, polemic, ambivalent, eristic, eristical, open to question, open to debate, hot-button, questionable, dubious, arguable, doubtful, iffy, open to doubt, doubtable, issuable, dubitable, negotiable, suspect, dodgy, problematic, unclear, problematical, debated, undetermined, in doubt, open to discussion, in dispute, up in the air, contested, contestable, disputatious, at issue, unconfirmed, fishy … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “For decades, insect evolution has been a highly contentious issue.”
      “It is a space where locals engage in a contentious debate over ethnic nationalism and identity.”
      “We have always been a contentious people without any hesitation to tear down our leaders.”
contested
  1. controversial; contentious; debated
  2. Synonyms:
      3. challenged, fought, battled, competed for, contended for, debated, contentious, controversial, questioned, argued, impugned, disputed, debatable, moot, questionable, vexed, hot-button, open to question, at issue, in dispute, unresolved, undetermined, unsettled, undecided, ongoing, unconcluded, fractious, sticky, open to debate, up in the air, yet to be decided, in contention, open to doubt, much debated, disputable, disputatious, arguable, delicate, dubious, difficult, sensitive, divisive, polemical, controvertible, contended, emotive, dubitable, polemic, provocative … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “In this period, the borough presidency was a hotly contested prize.”
      “The fact that sub-national entities are prohibited from regulating mining in their jurisdictions has become a highly contested issue among social movements and local authorities.”
contestible
  1. Alternative spelling of contestable
contestable
  1. That which can be contested.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. problematical, questionable, uncertain, disputable, dubious, arguable, doubtful, unsettled, moot, undecided, debatable, iffy, borderline, problematic, chancy, mootable, contested, exceptionable, unpredictable, open to question, in dispute, betwixt and between, up for discussion, touch-and-go, bone of contention, the jury's out, between sixes and sevens, between rock and hard place, contentious, controvertible, controversial, open to discussion, disputed, issuable, doubtable, negotiable, open to debate, unresolved, undetermined, unconfirmed, suspect, vexed, contended, open to doubt, up in the air, at issue, open, unconcluded, dodgy, unlikely … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “But, commensurately, we have a high responsibility to science itself as an open system of contestable evidence.”
      “Firstly, there is a contestable question of fact about historic significance.”
      “So that deciding contestable moral questions by reference to what any particular person would think about them loses its validity.”
contestatory
  1. Serving to contest something.
contended
  1. simple past tense and past participle of contend
  2. Synonyms:
      3. said, stated, announced, asserted, attested, declared, exclaimed, remarked, affirmed, alleged, alluded, argued, conveyed, intimated, proclaimed, added, answered, blurted, claimed, maintained, observed, opined, blabbered, commented, communicated, crowed, enounced, enunciated, imparted, indicated, insisted, intoned, mentioned, noted, piped, predicted, professed, pronounced, proposed, protested, read, recited, related, replied, responded, spieled, stressed, suggested, testified, uttered … more
contending
  1. present participle of contend
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fighting, battling, competing, contesting, vying, struggling, clashing, confronting, combatting, combating, grappling, opposing, challenging, wrestling, encountering, facing, striving, rivalling, rivaling, scuffling, tussling, warring, meeting, skirmishing, jostling, resisting, racing, disputing, withstanding, squabbling, pushing, running, oppugning, controverting, emulating, tugging, coping, litigating, standing, crossing swords, locking horns, waging war, joining battle, going after, going for, going head to head, tangling with, jockeying for position, scrambling for, going for broke … more
contesting
  1. present participle of contest
  2. Synonyms:
      3. challenging, disputing, opposing, questioning, defying, querying, resisting, oppugning, debating, impeaching, doubting, arguing, litigating, blasting, objecting to, struggling against, striving against, taking issue with, calling in question, taking a stand against, calling into question, fighting, combating, combatting, battling, standing up to, fighting against, confronting, contending with, countering, putting up a fight against, controverting, going against, thwarting, attacking, flying in the face of, repelling, taking on, contradicting, facing, checking, obstructing, facing down, crossing, withstanding, bucking, hindering, blocking, arguing against, duelling … more
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