conflictive
- adjective
- /kənˈflɪktɪv/
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conflictivo
- His conflictive thoughts about the decision made it difficult for him to choose a clear path forward.
Examples
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Her recent book, The Cultural Labyrinth of Maria de Zayas, explores more fully the multiple, often conflictive, subject positions that defined the individual during the Baroque period.
Academic text (2003) -
Caught in this conflictive net, global villagers can gain psychic freedom if they attend to, experience, and commit themselves to human solidarity at its various levels.
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Subjective experience is itself the conflictive 'totality' described by all of these.
Academic text (2018) -
It was continually implied, rather, that domestic life is conflictive by nature and has to be accepted as such or dealt with as such.
Academic text (1993) -
This history of resurrections reveals a highly complex, conflictive, ambivalent, but intense and ongoing relationship between the Salasacas (and others) and San Gonzalo.
Academic text (1998) -
Depression in teenagers has been associated with conflictive and dysfunctional families (Arzola-Colón, González-Villanova, and Rosell, 2000).
Academic text (2009) -
Borges's allegory of intercultural hermeneutic thinking enacts (intercultural) understanding as a paradoxical, contradictory, even conflictive ethical performance.
Academic text (2016) -
Many people find that their feelings about love can be conflictive, leading to both joy and anxiety at the same time.
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During therapy, she realized that her views about her future were conflictive, causing her to feel both hopeful and afraid.
Synonyms
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6.1
Showing ideas or statements that do not agree and cannot both be true
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4.4
Not sure because you have two opposite feelings
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7.1
Feeling both good and bad about something and not sure what to do
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4.2
Feeling pulled between two choices or loyalties
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4.2
Having ideas, facts, or feelings that do not agree with each other
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5.1
A person or thing that cannot work with another without causing problems
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7.1
Colors, opinions, or sounds that do not match and seem to clash
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9.9
Thoughts or impulses that do not match how a person sees themselves and cause upset
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8.1
Describing disagreement between people, groups, or inside a person
Having colors, patterns or ideas that do not go well together
Antonyms
How Conflicted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Conflictive The word conflictive comes from con- ('together') and flict ('clash'), so picture two forces meeting and clashing inside you. So conflictive feelings are like an inner clash that gives mixed or opposing emotions.