controversialist Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy
    eristic; disputant.

WordNet


Con`tro*ver"sial*ist noun
Definitions
  1. One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.
    He [Johnson] was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made. Macaulay.

Webster 1913