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conflictarian

conflictarian adjective: characterized by conflicts; tending to have conflicts.

Adjective

conflictarian (comparative more conflictarian, superlative most conflictarian)

  1. (rare) Characterized by conflicts; tending to have conflicts.
    • The result is an essentially conflictarian model of the society.1986, Nigerian Economic Society, The Nigerian economy: a political economy approach
    • The most ‘conflictarian’ type of imagery in the corpus is provided by metaphors of war and military action.2000, Andreas Musolf, Mirror Images of Europe: Metaphors in the Public Debate about Europe in Britain and Germany

Forms of conflictarian

comparativemore conflictarian
superlativemost conflictarian

Origin of conflictarian

From conflict + -arian.

Questions about conflictarian

What does conflictarian mean?
Conflictarian means characterized by conflicts; tending to have conflicts.
What part of speech is conflictarian?
Conflictarian is an adjective.

Words near conflictarian in the dictionary

  1. conflict training
  2. conflict zone
  3. conflict-free
  4. conflict-freeness
  5. conflict-ridden
  6. conflictarian
  7. conflicted
  8. conflicted avoidant
  9. conflicted out
  10. conflictedly
  11. conflictedness

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