uncontentious

Examples

• All

• The committee focused on uncontentious matters, avoiding any topics that might spark disagreement.

• The entire idea that you can define "best" in some uncontentious way will only occur to you if you assume that you have quite a lot of common ground with your interlocutor, such that the two of you will generally agree about what is best.

  Blog text (23)

• With "the little strength left to me," he was turning to uncontentious subjects.

  Academic text (1999)

• By doing so, they took a non partisan, uncontentious topic and transformed it into a hot button political issue.

• I mean, I think this the what I'm going to say, I think is fairly would be fairly uncontentious among philosophers who subscribe to naturalism.

• One of the conventions of writing about postmodernism is to acknowledge (or boast?) that nothing about the subject is certain, resolved, or uncontentious.

  Academic text (2016)

• During the meeting, they discussed uncontentious issues like the new office policies.

• The professor chose a calm and uncontentious topic for her lecture, ensuring a peaceful discussion.

Synonyms

M

mild-mannered

vsuncontentious

19 3.4

A person who is gentle, calm, and not aggressive

is about not stirring disputes rather than only having a mild style

P

peaceable

vsuncontentious

7 4.1

Calm and not wanting to fight or argue

stresses not provoking arguments specifically, not just general peacefulness

U

untroubled

vsuncontentious

4 3.5

Calm and not worried about problems

focuses on unlikely to cause disagreements rather than personal lack of worry

N

nonconfrontational

vsuncontentious

1 5.8

Avoids arguments and direct conflict with other people

is about not causing disagreement rather than only avoiding direct fights

C

complaisant

vsuncontentious

• Formal

1 8.3

Willing to please other people by being polite and doing what they ask

is about avoiding controversy by being calm and agreeable, not pleading

U

unaggressive

vsuncontentious

1 3.9

Not likely to fight or act forcefully towards others

focuses on avoiding controversy through agreeableness rather than lack of force

U

unassertive

vsuncontentious

1 6.2

Not confident about saying what you think or want

is about being unlikely to cause arguments rather than simply timid speech

E

equable

vsuncontentious

1 7.3

A calm person who does not get angry or upset easily

adds the idea of not causing arguments through agreeableness, not just temper

E

equanimous

vsuncontentious

• Formal

1 9.5

Calm and steady in difficult situations

is more about avoiding controversy and being agreeable than crisis composure

N

noncontentious

vsuncontentious

6.7

Not likely to argue or cause disagreement

is the same meaning presented with un prefix rather than non prefix

U

unargumentative

vsuncontentious

6.4

Not ready to disagree or fight with others

focuses on not causing arguments rather than only avoiding argument itself

C

conflictless

vsuncontentious

6.3

Free from argument or disagreement

describes a tendency not to cause controversy rather than an existing state

Antonyms

C

contentious

62 7.4

Causing people to disagree or argue

How Contentious

controversial

423 5.0

uncontentious

6.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology