conflicted

[kuh n-flik-tid]

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adjective

full of conflicting emotions or impulses: a situation that makes one feel very conflicted.

Origin of conflicted

conflict + -ed²

conflict

[verb kuhn-flikt; noun kon-flikt]

verb (used without object)

to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.

to fight or contend; do battle.

noun

a fight, battle, or struggle, especially a prolonged struggle; strife.

controversy; quarrel: conflicts between parties.

discord of action, feeling, or effect; antagonism or opposition, as of interests or principles: a conflict of ideas.

a striking together; collision.

incompatibility or interference, as of one idea, desire, event, or activity with another: a conflict in the schedule.

Psychiatry. a mental struggle arising from opposing demands or impulses.

Origin of conflict

1375–1425; late Middle English (noun) < Latin conflīctus a striking together, equivalent to conflīg(ere) to strike together, contend (con- con- + flīgere to strike) + -tus suffix of v. action; (v.) < Latin conflīctus, past participle of conflīgere, or by v. use of the noun

Related formscon·flic·tion, nouncon·flic·tive, con·flic·to·ry

[kuhn-flik-tuh-ree] /kənˈflɪk tə ri/, adjectivenon·con·flic·tive, adjectivepre·con·flict, verb (used without object)pre·con·flict, nounself-con·flict, nounun·con·flic·tive, adjective

Synonyms for conflict

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1. collide, oppose. 3. encounter, siege. 5. contention, opposition.

Synonym study

3. See fight.

Antonyms for conflict

4. accord.

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Related Words for conflicted

vary, differ, disagree, disturb, contend, combat, clash, discord, brawl, scrap, contest, jar, collide, interfere, fight, oppose, struggle, disaccord, mismatch, strive

Examples from the Web for conflicted

Contemporary Examples of conflicted

Sure, they have children, and sure her feelings were conflicted but this did not make sense in the way it was written and played.
What On Earth Is ‘The Affair’ About? Season One’s Baffling Finale
Tim Teeman
December 22, 2014
As Weber writes, the film “would rather Katniss be a conflicted hero instead of a romantic lead.”
Team Peeta or Team Gale: Why the ‘Hunger Games’ Love Triangle Ruins ‘Mockingjay – Part 1’
Kevin Fallon
November 28, 2014
The State Department official said he, too, was conflicted about the programs.
U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS
Jamie Dettmer
October 20, 2014
According to Einöther, research is conflicted about the benefits of caffeine over 100 milligrams.
Forget 5-Hour Energy: Tea Is a Better Buzz
Gregory Ferenstein
July 22, 2014
In 2008, he published a terrifyingly depressing account of the consequences of conflicted science, Doubt is Their Product.
The Republican Street Fight Over Transparency in Government
Lawrence Lessig
March 26, 2014

Historical Examples of conflicted

It conflicted with every other emotion that governed his being.
Thoroughbreds
W. A. Fraser
But somehow it conflicted with all Sir Bryan's articles of faith.
Peak and Prairie
Anna Fuller
He was never impatient of advice even when it conflicted with his own views.
Henry VIII.
A. F. Pollard
Lawton's "best" conflicted dynamically with the captain's orders.
The Sky Trap
Frank Belknap Long
Everything that conflicted with that authority, or with the decrees of the Church, was condemned.
History of Education
Levi Seeley

British Dictionary definitions for conflicted

conflict

noun (ˈkɒnflɪkt)

a struggle or clash between opposing forces; battle

a state of opposition between ideas, interests, etc; disagreement or controversy

a clash, as between two appointments made for the same time

psychol opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible wishes or drives, sometimes leading to a state of emotional tension and thought to be responsible for neuroses

verb (kənˈflɪkt) (intr)

to come into opposition; clash

to fight

Derived Formsconfliction, nounconflictive or conflictory, adjective

Word Origin for conflict

C15: from Latin conflictus, from conflīgere to combat, from flīgere to strike

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Word Origin and History for conflicted

conflict

early 15c., from Latin conflictus, past participle of confligere "to strike together, be in conflict," from com- "together" (see com-) + fligere "to strike" (see afflict). Related: Conflicted; conflicting.

conflict

early 15c., "armed encounter, battle," from Old French conflit and directly from Latin conflictus (see conflict (v.)). Meaning "struggle, quarrel" is from mid-15c. Psychological sense of "incompatible urges in one person" is from 1859 (hence conflicted, past participle adjective). Phrase conflict of interest was in use by 1743.

conflicted in Medicine

conflict

[kŏn′flĭkt′]

n.

A psychic struggle between opposing or incompatible impulses, desires, or tendencies.