CONTRADICTIONS Synonyms

• a loud resonant repeating noise

• a state of conflict between persons

• a state of conflict between colors

• a minor short-term fight

• crash together with violent impact

• be incompatible; be or come into conflict

• disagree violently

• an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)

• opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings

• a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war

• a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests

• an incompatibility of dates or events

• opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)

• a disagreement or argument about something important

• be in conflict

• go against, as of rules and laws

• a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

• a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions

• the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing

• a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions

• an event that departs from expectations

• the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate

• the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time

• the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

• the major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected

• the relation between opposed entities

• the act of hostile groups opposing each other

• a contestant that you are matched against

• a body of people united in opposing something

• a direction opposite to another

• an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)

• (logic) a statement that contradicts itself

• conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')

• (logic) a statement that is necessarily false