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conflictional

conflictional adjective: of, pertaining to, or characterized by conflict.

Adjective

conflictional (comparative more conflictional, superlative most conflictional)

  1. (rare) Of, pertaining to, or characterized by conflict.
    • These results are conflictional in that despite the patient's own perception of increase in ability to function socially, they are experiencing a considerable increase in somatic distress.1979, B. P. Angle et al., “The Heroin Addict's View of Personal Change During Methadone Maintenance Treatment,”, in Addiction, volume 74, number 2, page 210
    • This latter leadership reflected and reinforced more the "consensual" as opposed to "conflictional" political and social tendencies.1981, David McBride, M. H. Little, “The Afro-American Elite, 1930-1940: A Historical and Statistical Profile,”, in Phylon, volume 42, number 2, page 105

Synonyms of conflictional

Forms of conflictional

comparativemore conflictional
superlativemost conflictional

Origin of conflictional

From confliction + -al.

Questions about conflictional

What does conflictional mean?
Conflictional means of, pertaining to, or characterized by conflict.
What part of speech is conflictional?
Conflictional is an adjective.

Words near conflictional in the dictionary

  1. conflictful
  2. conflicting
  3. conflicting out
  4. conflictingly
  5. confliction
  6. conflictional
  7. conflictions
  8. conflictive
  9. conflictively
  10. conflictiveness
  11. conflictless

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