Synonyms for Confronting:

• n.

  •against (noun)
  • Against.
  •braving (noun)
  • braving.
  •confronting (noun)
  • grappling,
  • coping with,
  • tackling.
  •face to face (noun)
  • face.
  •facing (noun)
  • in the face of,
  • rebellious,
  • in the teeth of.

• v.

  •confronting (verb)
  • face to face,
  • dealing with.
  •contending (verb)
  • contrasting,
  • Quarreling,
  • bickering,
  • contending,
  • struggling,
  • Withstanding,
  • brawling,
  • wrangling,
  • conflicting,
  • defending,
  • standing,
  • hassling,
  • Vying,
  • clashing,
  • arguing,
  • protesting,
  • Encountering,
  • wrestling,
  • Disputing,
  • antagonizing,
  • opposing.
  •conversing (verb)
  • Chatting,
  • meeting,
  • Conversing,
  • Discussing,
  • talking,
  • Consulting,
  • Parleying,
  • Debating.
  •defying (verb)
  • facing,
  • Contravening,
  • Defying,
  • countering,
  • Counteracting,
  • Affronting,
  • Resisting,
  • dissenting,
  • crossing,
  • Countermanding,
  • challenging,
  • rebelling,
  • daring.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • opposite.

Paraphrases for Confronting:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    confront.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    face.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    meets, sees, VS, heads, countering, face, Faces, confrontation, Combating, tackling, Addressing.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    contending, Encountering, Surmounting, Presenting, Responding, reacting, stopping, competing, Preventing, Contesting, Intercepting, Resisting, concerning, resolving, comparing, solving, identifying, challenging, covering, Removing, grappling, Noting, Eliminating, answering, knocking, accommodating, Retrieving, Managing, wrestling, Rehabilitating, Deterring, settling, embracing, Introducing, posing, Mitigating, Afflicting, touching, Occurring, Treating, Exposing, turning, greeting, Relating, Examining, emerging, Fulfilling, struggling, absorbing, Experiencing, Traversing, Pertaining, waiting, suffering, Remedying, Referring, Witnessing, Suppressing, Besetting, Alleviating, standing, Stemming, dealing, adversarial, Replying, Mentioning, Discussing, striving, Arising, Delivering, questioning, questions, affecting, opposing, upcoming, highlighting, Influencing, impeding, appearing, Battling, Undergoing, crossing, issues, Respecting, being, matching, Awaiting, how, Weathering, Initiating, prevailing, approaching, overlooking, meet, Creating, Staying, belonging, reviewing, Hampering, imposing, Choosing, surrounding, clashing, hitting, striking, Expecting, Impacting, Plaguing, looking, pitting, deriving, launching, pressing, regarding, owing, Involving, weighing, setting, asking, warring, seeing, resulting, welcoming, Harming, starting, gripping, dividing, Bridging, raising, pending, Ushering, develop, Linking, running, taking, Needing, Adding, Doing, countering, Combating, tackling, Addressing.

• Other Related

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    confrontations.

Confronting Sentence Examples:

• He thought at first, from the trim, slender figure, and the waving hair above the gracefully poised head, that he was confronting a young woman.

• And meanwhile Mervyn stood confronting them, calmly; one hand, however, always behind him.