gikagubtan : Binisaya - Cebuano to English Dictionary and Thesaurus.

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Word:

Word - rootword - affixes
gikagubtan - kagubtan - gi-~
gi.ka.gub.tan. - 4 syllables

gi- = gikagubtan
gikagubtan

gikagubtan [gi.ka.gub.tan.] :	controversial (adj.)
kagubtan [ka.gub.tan.] :	stir up (v.)
gubot [gú.but.] :	disorderly (adj.); knotty (adj.)

Derivatives of kagubtan

Glosses:

controversial
adj.	1. controversial	marked by or capable of arousing controversy.; "the issue of the death penalty is highly controversial"; "Rushdie's controversial book"; "a controversial decision on affirmative action"
	~ arguable, debatable, disputable, moot	open to argument or debate.; "that is a moot question"
	~ contentious	involving or likely to cause controversy.; "a central and contentious element of the book"
	~ disputed	subject to disagreement and debate.
	~ polemic, polemical	of or involving dispute or controversy.
knotty
adj.	1. baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough	making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe.; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
	~ difficult, hard	not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
adj.	2. gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotted, knotty	used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots.; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
	~ crooked	having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned.; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
adj.	3. byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous	highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious.; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
	~ complex	complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts.; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs"
adj.	4. knotty, snarled, snarly	tangled in knots or snarls.; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread"
	~ tangled	in a confused mass.; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes"