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confrontation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun confrontation has 5 senses
- confrontation(n = noun.communication) Array - a bold challenge; Array is a kind of challenge
- confrontation(n = noun.communication) Array - discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions; Array is a kind of discord, dissension
- confrontation(n = noun.communication) encounter, face-off, showdown - a hostile disagreement face-to-face; Array is a kind of disagreement
- confrontation(n = noun.act) opposition - the act of hostile groups opposing each other; "the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions"; "the invaders encountered stiff opposition" has particulars: strikebreaking
- confrontation(n = noun.act) Array - a focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison; Array is a kind of comparing, comparison
Derived forms verb confront1, adjective confrontational1
Derived form adjective confrontational1
Derived forms verb confront4, adjective confrontational1
is a kind of resistance
Derived forms verb confront1, verb confront4
Derived form verb confront3
CIDE DICTIONARY
confrontation, n. [LL. confrontatio.].
Act of confronting. H. Swinburne. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
confrontation
allegory, analogy, antagonism, anteposition, antipathy, antithesis, audience, balancing, bargaining, bargaining session, clashing, collision, collision course, comparative anatomy, comparative degree, comparative grammar, comparative judgment, comparative linguistics, comparative literature, comparative method, compare, comparing, comparison, conclave, confab, confabulation, conference, conflict, confrontment, congress, consultation, contention, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety, contrast, contrastiveness, convention, correlation, council, council fire, council of war, counterposition, cross-purposes, disagreement, discrepancy, discussion, distinction, distinctiveness, encounter, exchange of views, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, high-level talk, hostility, huddle, inconsistency, inimicalness, interchange of views, interview, joining, likening, matching, meeting, metaphor, narrow squeak, near thing, near-miss, negotiations, news conference, opposing, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, palaver, parallelism, parley, perversity, polar opposition, polarity, polarization, posing against, pourparler, powwow, press conference, proportion, relation, rencontre, repugnance, seance, session, showdown, simile, similitude, sitting, summit, summit conference, summitry, trope of comparison, weighing
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