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Conflicting   /kənflˈɪktɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Conflict  v. i.  (past & past part. conflicted; pres. part. conflicting)  
1.
To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide. "Fire and water conflicting together."
2.
To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle. "A man would be content to... conflict with great difficulties, in hopes of a mighty reward."
3.
To be in opposition; to be contradictory. "The laws of the United States and of the individual States may, in some cases, conflict with each other."
Synonyms: To fight; contend; contest; resist; struggle; combat; strive; battle.



adjective
Conflicting  adj.  
1.
Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing; marked by discord.
Synonyms: antagonistic, at odds(predicate), clashing. "Torn with sundry conflicting passions."
2.
In disagreement; of facts or theories.
Synonyms: at odds(predicate), contradictory, self-contradictory.






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"Conflicting" Quotes from Famous Books



... breast, but with what mixed and conflicting feelings! Joy, pain, delight, dread, hope, disappointment. She had tried to dishonour herself in his eyes, and it would have broken her heart if she had succeeded. But she had failed and he had triumphed, and that ...
— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine

... operation of the traffic. The provision for a separate compartment for the use of only interstate Negro passengers would lead to confusion and discrimination. The same interstate transportation would be subject to conflicting regulation in the two States in which it is conducted. They believed that it imposed an unreasonable burden and according to the dissentients was, ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various

... this was his conviction of the absolute necessity, for Germany, of a strong non-partisan government: a government which should hold all the conflicting class interests in check and force them into continual compromises with one another; a government which should be unrestricted by any class prejudices, pledges, or theories, and have no other guiding star than the ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke

... within its sphere which is not still in dispute, and nothing, therefore, which is above doubt, I did not presume to anticipate that my success would be greater in it than that of others; and further, when I considered the number of conflicting opinions touching a single matter that may be upheld by learned men, while there can be but one true, I reckoned as well-nigh false all that was ...
— A Discourse on Method • Rene Descartes

... have seen one revolution take place at a time, the sixteenth century saw three, the Rise of Capitalism, the end of the Renaissance, and the beginning of the Reformation. All three, interacting, modifying each other, conflicting as they sometimes did, were equally the consequences, in different fields, of antecedent changes in man's circumstances. All life is an adaptation to environment; and thus from every alteration in the conditions ...
— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith


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