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conflicting
CIDE DICTIONARY
conflicting, a.
- Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing; marked by discord. [1913 Webster]"Torn with sundry conflicting passions." [1913 Webster]
- in disagreement; -- of facts or theories. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
conflicting
acrid, adversary, adversative, adverse, adversive, ajar, alien, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, antonymous, at cross-purposes, balancing, belligerent, bitter, breakaway, caustic, clashing, colliding, compensating, competitive, con, confronting, confused, contradicting, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrasted, converse, counter, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing, counterpoised, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, cross, crotchety, dead against, despiteful, detrimental, differing, difficult, disaccordant, disagreeing, disconsonant, discordant, discrepant, disharmonious, dissentient, dissident, dissonant, enemy, eyeball to eyeball, fractious, full of hate, grating, hard, harmful, harsh, hateful, hostile, in opposition, incompatible, incongruent, incongruous, inconsistent, inharmonious, inimical, inverse, jangling, jangly, jarring, jostling, malevolent, malicious, malignant, miserable, negative, nonconformist, noncooperative, not easy, obstinate, obverse, off-color, off-tone, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, out of accord, overthwart, perverse, quarrelsome, rancorous, reactionary, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, repugnant, resistant, reverse, revolutionary, rigorous, rival, set against, sinister, sore, spiteful, squared off, stressful, troublesome, troublous, trying, uncooperative, unfavorable, unfriendly, unharmonious, unpropitious, untoward, venomous, virulent, vitriolic, warring, wretchedROGET THESAURUS
conflicting
Contrariety
N contrariety, contrast, foil, antithesis, oppositeness, contradiction, antagonism, clashing, repugnance, inversion, the opposite, the reverse, the inverse, the converse, the antipodes, the antithesis, the other extreme, contrary, contrarious, contrariant, opposite, counter, dead against, converse, reverse, opposed, antithetical, contrasted, antipodean, antagonistic, opposing, conflicting, inconsistent, contradictory, at cross purposes, negative, hostile, differing toto coelo, diametrically opposite, diametrically opposed, as opposite as black and white, as opposite as light and darkness, as opposite as fire and water, as opposite as the poles, as different as night and day, Hyperion to a satyr, quite the contrary, quite the reverse, no such thing, just the other way, tout au contraire, contrarily, contra, contrariwise, per contra, on the contrary, nay rather, vice versa, on the other hand, all concord's born of contraries, Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.Counteraction
N counteraction, opposition, contrariety, antagonism, polarity, clashing, collision, interference, inhibition, resistance, renitency, friction, reaction, retroaction, counterblast, neutralization, vis inertiae, check, voluntary opposition &c, voluntary resistance, repression, opposites, action and reaction, yang and yin, yang-yin (contrariety), counteracting, antagonistic, conflicting, retroactive, renitent, reactionary, contrary, although, in spite of, against, for every action there is a reaction, equal in force and opposite in direction.For further exploring for "conflicting" in Webster Dictionary Online