conflictive
- adjective
- /kənˈflɪktɪv/
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conflictivo
- The team's conflictive opinions on the project led to heated discussions.
Examples
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The conflictive views between the two leaders made negotiations difficult.
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Whether the context be national or universal, Falcon's work is radical in orientation, both in the confrontational stance she adopts and the conflictive picture of gender relations that her works portray.
Academic text (1997) -
Yet the author himself ultimately does not understand his own role as a participant in the same conflictive imitative behavior that his characters display.
Academic text (1993) -
This process involves the region's ongoing, gradual, highly conflictive, and contradictory entrance into the emergent global economy and society.
Academic text (2000) -
Low riding thus exists within the fluid, multiple, and often conflictive meanings ascribed to it by both insiders and outsiders.
Academic text (1990) -
In Bustos Domecq's scenarios, truth is a conflictive entity that is to be gleaned from the multifaceted dialogue taking place under the rubric of detective fiction.
Academic text (1994) -
While analysts of civil society in Latin America note the conflictive nature of much popular participation through this means (Foley and Edwards 1998, 11-14), they generally argue that civil society promotes a more engaged form of citizenship than does the institutionalized party system.
Academic text (1999) -
They found themselves in a conflictive relationship, often arguing over small issues.
Synonyms
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4.7
Not staying the same over time and not agreeing with other facts
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6.1
Showing ideas or statements that do not agree and cannot both be true
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7.4
Causing people to disagree or argue
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7.4
Not fitting together and often clashing in sound or opinion
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4.2
Having ideas, facts, or feelings that do not agree with each other
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7.0
An idea that does not agree with another idea
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7.1
Colors, opinions, or sounds that do not match and seem to clash
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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 Conflicting
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6.4
- Specialized
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6.2
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4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Conflictive The word conflictive comes from conflict, made of con- ('together') and flict ('clash'), giving the image of two things that do not fit together. So conflictive statements or facts clash with each other and do not match.