- conflicting
- adjective
Date: 1592
being in conflict, collision, or opposition ; incompatible <conflicting theories> • conflictingly adverb
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conflicting
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conflicting — con‧flict‧ing [kənˈflɪktɪŋ] adjective conflicting ideas, beliefs, or opinions are different from each other and cannot both be true: • Customers are being given conflicting advice by manufacturers. * * * conflicting UK US /kənˈflɪktɪŋ/ adjective… … Financial and business terms
Conflicting — Con*flict ing, a. 1. Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing; marked by discord. Syn: antagonistic, at odds(predicate), clashing. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] Torn with sundry… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
conflicting — index adverse (opposite), antipathetic (oppositional), competitive (antagonistic), contradictory, contrary … Law dictionary
conflicting — [adj] contradictory adverse, antagonistic, antipathetic, at odds with, clashing, contrariant, contrary, disconsonant, discordant, discrepant, dissonant, incompatible, incongruent, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, opposed, opposing,… … New thesaurus
Conflicting — Conflict Con*flict , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Conflicted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Conflicting}.] [L. conflictus, p. p. of confligere to conflict (cf. conflictare); con + fligere to strike; cf. Gr. fli bein, qli bein, to press, L. flagrum whip.] 1. To… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
conflicting — UK [ˌkənˈflɪktɪŋ] / US adjective describes two or more things that cannot all be right or cannot all happen at the same time The two men gave conflicting statements to the police. We have to balance the conflicting demands of making high quality… … English dictionary
conflicting — /kənˈflɪktɪŋ/ (say kuhn flikting) verb 1. present participle of conflict. –adjective 2. in disagreement: conflicting opinions. 3. generating conflict: a conflicting issue …
conflicting — conflictingly, adv. /keuhn flik ting/, adj. being in conflict or disagreement; not compatible: conflicting viewpoints. [1600 10; CONFLICT + ING2] * * * … Universalium
conflicting — adjective a) Striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome. In the absence of all conflicting evidence. b) Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory … Wiktionary
conflicting — adj. Conflicting is used with these nouns: ↑advice, ↑belief, ↑claim, ↑demand, ↑desire, ↑emotion, ↑evidence, ↑finding, ↑force, ↑impulse, ↑information, ↑in … Collocations dictionary
