debateful
adjUK [dɪˈbeɪtfəɫ]
Etymology From debate + -ful.
1
Obsolete Contentious, argumentative, full of strife.
- Debatefull strife, and cruell enmitie / The famous name of knighthood fowly shend [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: