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disagreement

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of disagreement

1 variance of opinion on a matter

  • there was some disagreement about what color the missing sweater actually was
Synonyms of disagreement

contestation, controversy, debate, difference, difficulty, disputation, dispute, dissension (also dissention), dissensus, firestorm, nonconcurrence
Words Related to disagreement

clash, collision, conflict, confliction, disaccord, discord, dissonance

apartness, divarication, division

combat, contention, strife, struggle

altercation, argument, bicker, falling-out, fight, kickup, misunderstanding, quarrel, set-to
Near Antonyms of disagreement

acceptance, compliance

concord, peace
Antonyms of disagreement

accord, agreement, consensus, harmony, unanimity

2 an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions

  • a loud disagreement started as soon as we tried to order pizza for everyone
Synonyms of disagreement

altercation, argle-bargle [chiefly British], argument, argy-bargy [chiefly British], battle royal, bicker, brawl, contretemps, controversy, cross fire, dispute, donnybrook, falling-out, fight, hassle, imbroglio, kickup, misunderstanding, quarrel, rhubarb, row, scrap, set-to, spat, squabble, tiff, wrangle
Words Related to disagreement

clash, run-in, skirmish, tangle, tussle

logomachy

feud, vendetta

attack, contention, dissension (also dissention)

debate, difference, disputation

fuss, objection, protest, protestation

affray [chiefly British], fisticuffs, fracas, fray, free-for-all, melee (also mêlée)

catfight

3 the quality or state of being different

  • there is some disagreement between the accounts on the sequence of events
Synonyms of disagreement

contrast, difference, discrepancy, disparateness, disparity, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distance, distinction, distinctiveness, distinctness, diverseness, diversity, otherness, unlikeness
Words Related to disagreement

deviance, divergence

differentiability, discriminability, distinguishability

change, modification, variation

conflict, discord, discordance, dissension (also dissention), dissent, dissidence, disunity, friction, strife

variability, variance

anomalousness, dichotomy, incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness, nonconformity

disproportion, imbalance, inequality, nonequivalence
Near Antonyms of disagreement

identicalness, identity

accordance, agreement, conformity, congruity, correspondence, parallelism, similitude

equality, equivalence, equivalency

homogeneity, homogeneousness, uniformity
Antonyms of disagreement

alikeness, analogousness, analogy, community, likeness, resemblance, sameness, similarity

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