eristic

  1. Adjective.  Of something or someone provoking strife, controversy or discord.
  2. Noun.  One who makes specious arguments; one who is is disputatious.
  3. Noun.  A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.