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conflictogenic

conflictogenic adjective: tending to cause conflict.

Adjective

conflictogenic (comparative more conflictogenic, superlative most conflictogenic)

  1. Tending to cause conflict.

Synonyms of conflictogenic

Forms of conflictogenic

comparativemore conflictogenic
superlativemost conflictogenic

Origin of conflictogenic

Ostensibly often used as a calque of Russian конфликтоге́нный (konfliktogénnyj). See also Ukrainian конфліктоге́нний (konfliktohénnyj) of identical formation.

Questions about conflictogenic

What does conflictogenic mean?
Conflictogenic means tending to cause conflict.
What part of speech is conflictogenic?
Conflictogenic is an adjective.

Words near conflictogenic in the dictionary

  1. conflictiveness
  2. conflictless
  3. conflictlessness
  4. conflictogenesis
  5. conflictogenetic
  6. conflictogenic
  7. conflictological
  8. conflictologist
  9. conflictologists
  10. conflictology
  11. conflictory

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