conflict

Meaning

1. A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
2. An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.

fight

clash

be contrary

difference of opinion

be quarrelsome

knock into

rebutter

run counter to

fighting each other

be incompatible

be inconsistent

armed fighting

at odds with

fail to harmonize

frictior

be mutually opposed

mutual discrepancy

to be incompatible

to come into collision

come into collision

not find agreement

be at odds with

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɒn.flɪkt/

From Latin conflictus, past participle of confligere (“to strike together”), from com- (“together”) (a form of con-) + fligere (“to strike”).

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How can we reconcile this conflict ?

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