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Synonyms for conflicting
kənˈflɪk tɪŋcon·flict·ing
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
conflictingadjective
Foreign refers to difference of birth, alien to difference of allegiance. In their figurative use, that is foreign which is remote, unlike, or unconnected; that is alien which is conflicting, hostile, or opposed. Impertinent and irrelevant matters can not claim consideration in a certain connection; inappropriate matters could not properly be considered. Compare ALIEN, n.; CONTRAST, v.
Synonyms:
alien, alien, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, distant, foreign, hostile, impertinent, inappropriate, irrelevant, opposed, remote, strange, unconnected, unlikeAntonyms:
akin, appropriate, apropos, essential, germane, pertinent, proper, relevantPreposition:
Such a purpose was alien to (or from) my thought: to preferable.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
conflicting
Synonyms:
adverse, opposed, opposing, dashing, discordant, irreconcilable, contradictoryAntonyms:
harmonizing, consistent, consentaneous, congruous
Princeton's WordNet
at odds(p), conflicting, contradictory, self-contradictoryadjective
in disagreement
"the figures are at odds with our findings"; "contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"- John Morley
Antonyms:
unopposed, consistentconflictingadjective
on bad terms
"they were usually at odds over politics"; "conflicting opinions"
Synonyms:
contradictory, at odds(p), self-contradictoryAntonyms:
unopposed, consistent
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
conflictingadjective
Synonyms:
contending, contradictory, contrary, opposing
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "conflicting":
contradictory, contradicting, divergent, opposing, competing, adversarial, inconsistent, conflict, conflictual, incompatible, mixed, contrasting, controversial, confrontational, diverging, self-contradictory, antagonistic, opposite, disputing, rival, conflictive, competitor, contentious
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1188 | foreign | |
#1639 | remote | |
#3036 | mixed | |
#3106 | conflict | |
#3929 | strange | |
#5096 | unlike | |
#5425 | opposite | |
#5680 | adverse | |
#5966 | alien | |
#6114 | opposed | |
#6811 | contrary | |
#7392 | inappropriate | |
#8346 | competing | |
#9085 | distant | |
#9520 | controversial | |
#11080 | rival | |
#12012 | inconsistent | |
#12170 | hostile | |
#12575 | opposing | |
#12862 | competitor | |
#13150 | irrelevant | |
#15258 | conflicting | |
#17090 | incompatible | |
#21085 | contrasting | |
#22335 | contradictory | |
#27806 | contentious | |
#29182 | divergent | |
#33316 | contrasted | |
#40868 | dashing | |
#46040 | adversarial | |
#49221 | antagonistic | |
#51705 | confrontational | |
#52405 | contradicting | |
#52578 | unconnected | |
#53300 | disputing | |
#64393 | diverging | |
#65631 | discordant | |
#67555 | irreconcilable | |
#109233 | impertinent | |
#178413 | conflictual | |
#312985 | conflictive |
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Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.
I wasn't that surprised to see that 78% reported that they encountered conflicting information, but our follow-up question to that had, I think, a really interesting data point in it, and that was that about half -- so around 56% -- say that this conflicting information causes them to doubt the choices that they're making, i think that shows that for at least half of our respondents, this conflicting information was leading to some doubt that made it harder to sort through all the conflicting information.
We don't know what happened and there are lots of conflicting stories, unfortunately there will have to be some time taken to understand what happened. Hopefully we will get to an understanding and justice will be served.
When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.
They’re definitely miracles, i had challenging feelings, conflicting feelings, seeing how tiny they were on one hand, feeling the joy of seeing two babies on the second hand. I was thinking, ‘how much pain they are in?’ It was so conflicting. They were so tiny.
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