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confrontation

/ˌkɒn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/US/ˌkɑn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/

confrontation noun: the act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.

Noun

confrontation (countable and uncountable, plural confrontations)

  1. The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.
    • During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy)[…]1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489
    Synonyms:
    confrontal, showdown
  2. A conflict between armed forces.

confrontation meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

confrontation in Hindi

the act of confronting or challenging another, especially face-to-face
मुक़ाबला muqāblā, आमना-सामना āmnā-sāmnā

confrontation in Tamil

நேரெதிர் எதிர்ப்பு, படைகளுக்கிடையே மோதல்

confrontation in Urdu

the act of confronting or challenging another, especially face-to-face
مُقابْلَہ muqābla, آمْنا سامْنا āmnā sāmnā

confrontation in Bengali

confrontation, encounter
মোকাবেলা mōkabela
More languagesFewer languages
confrontation in Malayalam
സംഘട്ടനം saṅghaṭṭanaṁ
confrontation in Kannada
ಎದುರಿಗಿರುವಿಕೆ, ಕಟ್ಟಿದಿರ್, ಕಟ್ಟಿದಿರು, ಎದುರುಬದುರಾಗುವಿಕೆ
confrontation in Arabic
مُوَاجَهَة muwājaha, مُجَابَهَة mujābaha

Examples of confrontation in a sentence

  • I’m one of those people who avoids confrontations like the plague.
  • Across Ukraine, the initial shock over the confrontation, which culminated in President Donald Trump summarily dismissing Mr.
  • These confrontations – 'bumfights' – are filmed and shown on the Internet.

All 40 example sentences with confrontation

Synonyms of confrontation

Forms of confrontation

pluralconfrontations

Plural of confrontation: confrontations

Origin of confrontation

From Middle French. Morphologically confront + -ation.

Words formed from confrontation

Words that rhyme with confrontation

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Questions about confrontation

What does confrontation mean?
Confrontation means the act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.
What is confrontation in Hindi?
Confrontation in Hindi is मुक़ाबला (muqāblā), आमना-सामना (āmnā-sāmnā). See Confrontation meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is confrontation?
Confrontation is a noun.
How do you pronounce confrontation?
Confrontation is pronounced /ˌkɒn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/ (UK).
What is the plural of confrontation?
The plural of confrontation is confrontations.

Words near confrontation in the dictionary

  1. confront
  2. confront one's demons
  3. confrontable
  4. confrontal
  5. confrontals
  6. confrontation
  7. confrontational
  8. confrontationalism
  9. confrontationalist
  10. confrontationalists
  11. confrontationality

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: confrontation (page history and authors); confrontation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); মোকাবেলা (Bengali) (page history and authors); സംഘട്ടനം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); confrontation (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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