Conflict

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war.
  • n. A state of disharmony between incompatible or antithetical persons, ideas, or interests; a clash.
  • n. Psychology A psychic struggle, often unconscious, resulting from the opposition or simultaneous functioning of mutually exclusive impulses, desires, or tendencies.
  • n. Opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially opposition that motivates or shapes the action of the plot.
  • verb-intransitive. To be in or come into opposition; differ.
  • verb-intransitive. Archaic To engage in warfare.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
  • n. An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
  • v. To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
  • v. To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A striking or dashing together; violent collision.
  • n. A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.
  • verb-intransitive. To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide.
  • verb-intransitive. To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.
  • verb-intransitive. To be in opposition; to be contradictory.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To strike or dash together; meet in opposition; come together violently.
  • To contend; fight; strive; struggle.
  • To be in opposition; be contrary or at variance: as, the evidence given by the second witness conflicted with that given by the first.
  • n. A struggle for mastery; a striving to oppose or overcome; a battle or combat; contention; controversy; strife.
  • n. Discord of action, feeling, or effect; antagonism, as of interests or principles; counteraction, as of causes, laws, or agencies of any kind; opposing action or tendency; opposition; collision: as, a conflict of the elements, or between right and wrong.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
  • v. be in conflict
  • v. go against, as of rules and laws
  • n. a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests
  • n. a disagreement or argument about something important
  • n. an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
  • n. opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings
  • n. an incompatibility of dates or events
  • n. opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    breach    break    violate    go against    offend    infract    transgress    ambivalency    ambivalence    incompatibility   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    battle    fight    struggle    contention    combat    contest    encounter    strife    collision    fighting   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    addict    afflict    clicked    constrict    contradict    convict    depict    evict    handpicked    inflict   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    struggle    strife    crisis    warfare    violence    disaster    contest    dispute    confusion    difficulty