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conflicting

conflicting adjective: fighting; contending; in conflict. Also the present participle and gerund of conflict.

Adjective

conflicting (comparative more conflicting, superlative most conflicting)

  1. Fighting; contending; in conflict.
    • To eliminate conflicting movements at the busy Brighton Main Line station, Network Rail proposes to rebuild the station with two extra platforms (from six to eight) and a larger concourse.2020 September 9, Andrew Roden, “Network News: Positive response to Croydon remodelling”, in Rail, page 24
  2. Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.
    • in the absence of all conflicting evidence
    • On the other hand, the more effective the current activation vector is in reactivating the conflicting information, the more likely the two conflicting pieces of information are to be coactivated.1999, Herre van Oostendorp, Susan R. Goldman, The construction of mental representations during reading

Also used as

conflicting is also the present participle and gerund of conflict.

conflicting meaning in Urdu

conflicting in Urdu

متصادم

Examples of conflicting in a sentence

  • The einstein (symbol E) is an obsolete unit with two conflicting definitions.
  • The owners of the adjoining plots had conflicting surveys.
  • He was torn by conflicting emotions.

All 40 example sentences with conflicting

Forms of conflicting

comparativemore conflicting
superlativemost conflicting

Words formed from conflicting

Phrases with conflicting

Questions about conflicting

What does conflicting mean?
Conflicting means fighting; contending; in conflict.
What is conflicting in Urdu?
Conflicting in Urdu is متصادم. See Conflicting meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is conflicting?
Conflicting is an adjective.

Words near conflicting in the dictionary

  1. conflicted avoidant
  2. conflicted out
  3. conflictedly
  4. conflictedness
  5. conflictful
  6. conflicting
  7. conflicting out
  8. conflictingly
  9. confliction
  10. conflictional
  11. conflictions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: conflicting (page history and authors); conflicting (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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