conflict
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
conflict
▶noun /ˈkɒnflɪkt/ a serious disagreement or argument.
■ a prolonged armed struggle.
■ an incompatibility between opinions, principles, etc.
▶verb /kənˈflɪkt/ (often as adj. conflicting) be incompatible or at variance; clash.– derivatives
conflictual adjective.
conflictual adjective.
– origin ME: from L. conflict-, confligere ‘strike together, fight’, from con- ‘together’ + fligere ‘to strike’; the noun is via L. conflictus ‘a contest’.
'conflict' also found in these Oxford entries:
action
- adversarial
- afoul
- agonistic
- anal-retentive
- Armageddon
- battle
- belligerent
- bitter
- blind trust
- blood feud
- bloodless
- bloodletting
- clash
- class struggle
- cockpit
- collide
- communal
- compatible
- contest
- contravene
- counter
- cross-current
- de-escalate
- defence mechanism
- dialectical materialism
- disengage
- displacement activity
- embed
- embroil
- essence
- fall
- fit
- friction
- hare
- harmonious
- hatchet
- IDP
- impi
- incendiary
- infighting
- internecine
- Kulturkampf
- lock
- Manichaean
- Manichaeism
- mortal
- neutral
- no-fly zone
