Strife synonyms

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discard
Something discarded
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conflict
Sharp disagreement or opposition, as of interests or ideas; clash
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hurling
A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.
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fighting
A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight
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argument
A discussion in which there is disagreement; dispute; debate
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contention
The act of contending; strife, struggle, controversy, dispute, quarrel, etc.
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fracas
The definition of a fracas is a noisy disturbance, fight or argument.
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warfare
Conflict or struggle of any kind
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quarrel
A reason for a dispute or argument:
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struggle
A strenuous effort in the face of difficulty:
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disagreement (related)
A disparity; an inconsistency.
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fight (related)
Any struggle, contest, or quarrel
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animosity
Bitter hostility or open enmity; active hatred.
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combat
Fighting, especially with weapons:
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discord (related)
(Music) A lack of harmony in tones sounded together; inharmonious combination of tones; dissonance
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internecine
Deadly or harmful to both sides of a group involved in a conflict, as a civil war; mutually destructive or harmful
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altercation
The definition of an altercation is a verbal fight between people.
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battle
Any fight or struggle; conflict
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brawl
A fight, usually with a large number of people involved.
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competition
A competitor:
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concours
A vying with others for victory or supremacy
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contest
(Uncountable) Controversy; debate.
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controversy
The definition of a controversy is a public disagreement with two sides openly debating.
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dispute
A quarrel
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dissension
Difference of opinion; disagreement.
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emulation
(Comput.) The act or an instance of using an emulator
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feud
A bitter, protracted, and violent quarrel, esp. between clans or families, often characterized by killings and counterkillings
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fray
A heated dispute or intensely competitive situation:
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friction
The definition of friction is conflict or unease created when two people of opposing views or ideals come together or the resistance that occurs when surfaces rub together.
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spat
An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres.
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squabble
The definition of a squabble is a silly little fight or tiff.
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static
Distortion or interruption of a broadcast signal, such as crackling or noise in a receiver or specks on a television screen, often produced when background electromagnetic radiation in the atmosphere disturbs signal reception or when there are loose connections in the transmission or reception circuits.
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turmoil
A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
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unrest
An uneasy or troubled condition; unease or discontent:
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upheaval
A sudden, violent disruption or upset:
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war
A condition of active antagonism or contention:
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cooperation (antonym)
The definition of cooperation is people working together to achieve results or people helping each other out to achieve a common goal.
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harmony (antonym)
An orderly or pleasing combination of elements in a whole:
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peace (antonym)
An agreement or a treaty to end hostilities:
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victory (antonym)
An instance of having won a competition or battle.
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success (antonym)
One that is successful:
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clash
(Military) A skirmish, a hostile encounter.
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confrontation
A focused comparison:
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difference
(Uncountable) The quality of being different.
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difficulty
Something not easily done, accomplished, comprehended, or solved:
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discordance
(Music) Lack of harmony; dissonance.
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dissent
The rendering of a minority opinion in the decision of a law case
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dissidence
The state of being dissident; dissent
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dissonance
(Music) A combination of tones contextually considered to suggest unrelieved tension and require resolution.
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faction
A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction
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inharmony
An instance of such discord.
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schism
The definition of a schism is a split of a group into different sections as a result of a difference in beliefs.
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variance
(Accounting) The difference between the actual costs of production and the standard or expected costs
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hostility
(Countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
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race
An interbreeding, usually geographically isolated population of organisms differing from other populations of the same species in the frequency of hereditary traits. A race that has been given formal taxonomic recognition is known as a subspecies.
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rivalry
The definition of a rivalry is a competition or contest.
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tug of war
(Idiomatic) a dispute between two parties, particularly an entrenched, back and forth dispute.
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bloodshed (related)
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recrimination (related)
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feuding (related)
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factionalism (related)
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infighting (related)
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enmity (related)
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dissentience
A state of disagreement and disharmony
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  • But the centre of strife was not to be Arabia.

  • Grote maintains that ostracism was a useful device, on the grounds that it removed the danger of tyranny, and was better than the perpetual civil strife of the previous century.

  • Immediately after the war, strife occurred among the Basuto themselves over the question of the partition of Moirosi's territory, which had been decided on as one of the results of the war.

  • With this civil strife the importance and prosperity of Louvain declined.

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