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conflict
Synonyms and Antonyms of conflict
- the conflict between absolute freedom and personal responsibility
disaccord, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissension (also dissention), dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, division, friction, infighting, inharmony, schism, strife, variance, war, warfare
clash, collision, competition, contention
altercation, argument, bicker, brawl, debate, disagreement, dispute, divide, fissure
falling-out, fight, hassle, jar, miff, mix-up, quarrel, row, run-in, scrap, spat, squabble, tiff, wrangle
incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness, inconsistence, inconsistency, inconsonance, inharmoniousness
animosity, antagonism, antipathy, cold war, enmity, hostility, ill will, rancor
- an armed conflict between strikers and strikebreakers
pitched battle, rough-and-tumble
affray [chiefly British], battle royal, brawl, broil, donnybrook, free-for-all, melee (also mêlée), mix-up, ruckus, ruction
blows, fistfight, fisticuffs, grapple, handgrips, punch-out, punch-up [chiefly British], slugfest
confrontation, duel, face-off, joust
altercation, argle-bargle [chiefly British], argument, argy-bargy [chiefly British], contretemps, controversy, cross fire, disagreement, dispute, falling-out, kickup, misunderstanding, quarrel, row, spat, squabble, tangle, tiff, wrangle
- the United Nations strives to prevent international conflicts
- the eternal conflict between the forces of good and evil
ball game, battle, combat, competition, confrontation, contention, contest, dogfight, duel, face-off, grapple, match, rivalry, strife, struggle, sweepstakes (also sweep-stake), tug-of-war, war, warfare
Synonym Discussion of conflict
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- a political party long racked by discord
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- during his brief reign the empire was never free of civil strife
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- the conflict of freedom and responsibility
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- several points of contention about the new zoning law
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- religious dissension threatened to split the colony
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- cultural variances that work against a national identity
conflict
Synonyms and Antonyms of conflict
- his statement conflicts with the facts, as given in the police report
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