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disagreement
noun as in dispute, quarrel
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animosity, antagonism, argument, bickering, clash, conflict, controversy, debate, difference, discord, dissent, disunity, division, feud, fight, friction, hostility, misunderstanding, opposition, spat, split, squabble, strife, tension, wrangle
Strong matches
altercation, atmospherics, breach, break, contention, contest, cross-purposes, dissidence, disunion, hassle, rupture, variance, vendetta, words
Weak matches
clashing, divisiveness, falling out, ill feeling, ill will, jarring
noun as in difference, unlikeness
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Strong matches
discordance, disharmony, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, divergency, diversity, incompatibility, incongruity, incongruousness, variance
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Example Sentences
That’s especially true in cases of heated disagreement about what happened.
The Australian boy, 12, had had a disagreement with a friend, and one night before bed the boy added him to a group chat with two older teenagers.
After 70 years of atomic power, there is still disagreement over what to do with the accumulated radioactive waste - some of which will remain hazardous for hundreds of thousands of years.
There have been persistent disagreements about how triggers for water cutbacks should be determined, and how the reductions should be apportioned.
Layered on top of that is the fact that political disagreements have morphed into moral conflicts that are perceived as pitting good against evil.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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