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Another word for conflict

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Noun

  1. A state of open, prolonged fighting

    See also:

    conflict

  2. A state of disagreement and disharmony

    See also:

    conflict

Verb

  1. To fail to be in accord

    Idioms:
    See also:

    agree

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Another word for conflict

Noun

  1. A fight

    See also:

    fight

    dispute

    battle

  2. A state of discord

    See also:

    fight

    opposition

    disagreement

Verb
  1. See also:

    oppose

    fight

    differ

    clash

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • You can't avoid conflict all the time.

  • There was a conflict of loyalties.

  • Was it merely personality conflict or sibling rivalry?

  • It was a decade of conflict transformation and peace-building.

  • Whatever the issue was, the conflict between Alex and Dulce remained.

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