Contentions Synonyms and Antonyms

The act of competing as for profit or a prize
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. conflicts
  2. grounds
  3. wrangles
  4. fights
  5. rivalries
  6. tiffs
  7. squabbles
  8. quarrels
  9. explanations
  10. disputes
  11. disagreements
  12. difficulties
  13. wars
  14. tangles
  15. debates
  16. pleas
  17. hassles
  18. struggles
  19. charges
  20. controversies
  21. scraps
  22. words
  23. discussions
  24. riots
  25. rebellions
  26. competitions
  27. advancements
  28. spats
  29. opinions
  30. depositions
  31. run-ins
  32. frictions
  33. arguments
  34. professions
  35. polemics
  36. dissensions
  37. altercations
  38. avowals
  39. differences
  40. claims
  41. contests
  42. allegations
  43. clashes
  44. combats
  45. bickers
  46. assertions
  47. beefs
  48. stands
Antonyms:
  1. friendships
  2. sympathies
  3. considerations
  4. kindnesses
  5. affections
A hypothetical controversial proposition
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. contestations
  2. theses
The act or an instance of striving in controversy or debate.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. conflicts

Contentions Sentence Examples

  • From a very early period Alsace has been a disputed territory, and has suffered in the contentions of rival races.

  • In these main contentions the Eleatic school achieved a real advance, and paved the way to the modern conception of metaphysics.

  • To dwell upon such literary infamies would be below the dignity of the historian, were it not that these habits of the early Italian humanists imposed a fashion upon Europe which extended to the later age of Scaliger's contentions with Scioppius and Milton's with Salmasius.

  • The internal evidence has, as is usual in such cases, been brought forward as a conclusive argument in favour of both contentions.

  • Tirpitz advances two contentions; first, that he would have sent the navy into decisive action at an earlier stage of the war; secondly, that he would have made an earlier and more ruthless use of the German U-boats; but his opponents traverse both these claims, and in particular assert that as Secretary of State he had neglected the construction of submarines, so that Germany entered the war with a comparatively small supply of these vessels.

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