conflicted

[ kuh n-flik-tid ]

/ kənˈflɪk tɪd /

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adjective

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

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Origin of conflicted

conflict + -ed²

conflict

[ verb kuhn-flikt; noun kon-flikt ]

/ verb kənˈflɪkt; noun ˈkɒn flɪkt /

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

SYNONYMS FOR conflict

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

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ANTONYMS FOR conflict

4. accord.

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Related forms

con·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

Synonym study

3. See fight.

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Examples from the Web for conflicted

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The State Department official said he, too, was conflicted about the programs.
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According to Einöther, research is conflicted about the benefits of caffeine over 100 milligrams.
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In 2008, he published a terrifyingly depressing account of the consequences of conflicted science, Doubt is Their Product.
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It conflicted with every other emotion that governed his being.
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Events which conflicted with it were either not events, or they were so exceptional as to be negligible.
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They had developed political practices which conflicted with the constitution as the British knew it.
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Other provisions governing the establishment of agroindustrial complexes, however, conflicted with the principle of voluntarism.
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The sergeant had but a limited view of moral ethics where they conflicted with the interests of the police.
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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.

Medicine definitions for conflicted

conflict

[ kŏn′flĭkt′ ]

n.

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

conflicted

adjective

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