Definition for Confrontation:

• The examination together of two persons, one with a disease, such as syphilis, the other presumably the person from whom the disease was contracted.

Synonyms for Confrontation:

• n.

  •
  • a war of words.
  •
  • meet.
  •
  • hostility.
  •
  • difference,
  • difficulty.
  •act (noun)
  • confrontation.
  •battle (noun)
  • engagement.
  •brush (noun)
  • settos,
  • set tos,
  • set-tos.
  •challenge (noun)
  • inter rogation,
  • re-monstrances,
  • pro-vocation,
  • claimings,
  • pro vocation,
  • inter-rogation,
  • pro-vocations,
  • inter rogations,
  • pro vocations,
  • re-monstrance,
  • re monstrance,
  • summons contest,
  • demandings,
  • inter-rogations,
  • re monstrances.
  •clash (noun)
  • have go at each other,
  • mis-understanding,
  • have go each other,
  • have a go each other,
  • dis cord,
  • dis-cord,
  • dis harmony,
  • mis-understandings,
  • mis understandings,
  • mis understanding,
  • dis harmonies,
  • dis-harmony,
  • dis-harmonies,
  • difference opinion,
  • dis cords,
  • dis-cords.
  •conflict (noun)
  • showdown,
  • contest,
  • dispute.
  •confrontation (noun)
  • opposition.
  •contention (noun)
  • contention,
  • argument,
  • struggle,
  • controversy,
  • dissidence,
  • quarrel,
  • antipathy,
  • tension,
  • contrariety.
  •conversation (noun)
  • conference,
  • dialog,
  • confabulation,
  • discussion,
  • debate,
  • interview,
  • seminar,
  • talk,
  • parley,
  • conversation,
  • consultation,
  • chat.
  •crisis (noun)
  • predicament,
  • cross-roads,
  • quandary,
  • height,
  • Exigencies,
  • big trouble,
  • hot potato,
  • hour of decision,
  • Cross-road,
  • predicaments,
  • urgency.
  •defiance (noun)
  • dissension,
  • rebelliousness,
  • insurgency,
  • affront,
  • attack,
  • insubordination,
  • stubbornness,
  • insolence,
  • boldness,
  • contravention,
  • recalcitrance,
  • dissent,
  • temerity,
  • audacity.
  •disaccord (noun)
  • dis-sonance,
  • in-compatibilities,
  • dis-sonances,
  • dis-sents,
  • dis accords,
  • dis sonances,
  • dis sonance,
  • in-compatibility,
  • in compatibility,
  • in compatibilities,
  • dis sents,
  • dis-sent,
  • dis-accords,
  • dis accord,
  • dis sent,
  • dis-accord.
  •discordance (noun)
  • in harmony.
  •dissentience (noun)
  • dis sentiences,
  • dis sentience,
  • dis-sentience,
  • dis-sentiences.
  •encounter (noun)
  • inter views,
  • inter view,
  • inter-view,
  • inter-views.
  •fight (noun)
  • free for all,
  • dis agreements,
  • dis-agreements,
  • sparring matches,
  • dis-agreement,
  • ex change,
  • dis agreement,
  • ex changes.
  •recalcitrance (noun)
  • de spites,
  • de spite,
  • de-spites,
  • despites,
  • de-spite.
  •recalcitrancy (noun)
  • recalcitrancy.
  •run-in (noun)
  • bickerings,
  • run in.
  •scene (noun)
  • carryings on,
  • up sets,
  • temper tantrums,
  • carryingson,
  • carryingon,
  • up-sets,
  • up-set.
  •unruliness (noun)
  • intractableness,
  • Indocility.

• Other synonyms:

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  • circularity,
  • vendetta,
  • unpleasantness,
  • hoo-ha,
  • ding-dong,
  • misunderstanding,
  • disputation,
  • strike,
  • crossfire,
  • free-for-all,
  • tangle,
  • tiff,
  • disunity,
  • discordance,
  • falling out,
  • feud,
  • ballyhoo,
  • dissentience,
  • contretemps,
  • infighting,
  • toing and froing,
  • Inharmony,
  • row,
  • belligerency,
  • ructions,
  • battlefield,
  • altercation,
  • battle,
  • disharmony,
  • rumpus,
  • running battle,
  • turf war,
  • fracas,
  • ruckus,
  • war of words,
  • wrangle,
  • affray,
  • shouting match,
  • blow up,
  • flak,
  • slanging match,
  • flare up,
  • breach,
  • hair-splitting,
  • standoff,
  • spat.
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  • dissonance,
  • Skirmishing,
  • rift,
  • exchange,
  • collision,
  • the fray,
  • pitched battle.
  •
  • war,
  • schism,
  • split,
  • warfare,
  • scrap,
  • strife,
  • disaccord,
  • variance.
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  • faction,
  • discord,
  • division.

Paraphrases for Confrontation:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    showdown, encounter, encounters.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    standoff, stand-off, showdown, encounter.

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    confront.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    opposition, resistance, discord.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    VS, confronting.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    collision, contradiction, comparison, contention, controversy, rivalry, fight, front, friction, countermeasure, argument, head-on, hostility, disagreement, counter, Encountering, wrangling, enmity, discussion, contrast, contrasts, debate, war, competition, warfare, litigation, quarrel, defiance.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    conflict, clash, clashes.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    strife, conflagration, dispute, battle, struggle, engagement, conflict, clash, violence.

Antonyms for Confrontation:

• n.

  • conflict
    peace, agreement, calm.
  • Other antonyms:
    concord, harmony.

Confrontation Sentence Examples:

• He had his responsibilities; she had hers; they avoided confrontation.

• What he was really telling his people, she realized, in oblique language only they would comprehend, was that Japan was now prepared to wage open confrontation through commerce - their trading state pitted against the world's military states, whose economic base and martial ascendancy they would now proceed to challenge through technological superiority and cutthroat trade.

Hyponym for Confrontation:

• n.

  • act
    comparing, comparison.
  • communication
    dissension, challenge, discord.