confronter
- noun
- /kənˈfrʌntər/
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enfrentador
- Being a confronter means you are not afraid to face difficult conversations that others might avoid.
Examples
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To what extent does the individual view the confronter as supportive in general and supportive of sobriety in particular?
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Or the confronter.
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What attributions does the person make about the motivations of the confronter?
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In contrast, the confronter group does not have evidence of impairment, and members were classified by these same variables as indistinguishable from the control.
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Well, we need confronters, challengers, and counteractors-agitators, as I referred to you at the top of this little peroration.
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The pain scale categorized subjects with LBP into "confronter" and "avoider" groups based on their behavioral response to pain (23).
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Most of the items assessing respondent perceptions of confrontations and confronters had means above 4 on a 5-point scale.
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Additionally, more frequent confrontation from more individuals and more sources was associated with more favorable views about relationships with confronters (p < 0.001) and more favorable views about the confrontations received (p < 0.001).
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A good leader is often a confronter, willing to challenge the status quo for the benefit of the team.
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In a difficult meeting, she took on the role of a confronter, directly addressing the problematic issues head-on.
Antonyms
How Confrontational
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Confronter comes from two parts: con- meaning 'with' and front meaning 'face' or 'front', the same idea you see in the English word front. So a confronter is someone who goes to the 'front' of a problem, someone who faces or challenges a person or issue directly.