Synonyms of the word strife


STRIFEBATTLE - CONFLICT - DISCORD - DISORDER - STRUGGLE

strife

  • n. Conflict, sometimes violent, usually brief or limited in scope.

battle

  • adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England, agriculture) Improving; nutritious; fattening.
  • adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) Fertile; fruitful.
  • v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To nourish; feed.
  • v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To render (for example soil) fertile…
  • n. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an…
  • n. A struggle; a contest.
  • n. (now rare) A division of an army; a battalion.
  • n. (obsolete) The main body, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; battalia.
  • v. (intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight.
  • v. (transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.

conflict

  • n. A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
  • n. An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
  • v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.
  • v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.

discord

  • n. Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
  • n. Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
  • n. (music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
  • n. Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
  • v. (archaic) To disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.

disorder

  • n. Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.
  • n. A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.
  • n. (medicine, countable) A physical or psychical malfunction.
  • v. (transitive) To throw into a state of disorder.
  • v. (transitive) To knock out of order or sequence.

struggle

  • n. Strife, contention, great effort.
  • v. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
  • v. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

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