confrontational

Also con·fron·ta·tive

[kon-fruhn-tey-shuh-nl, -fruhn-]

adjective

1. tending toward or ready for confrontation.

   They came to the meeting with a confrontational attitude.

Other Word Forms

• nonconfrontational adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of confrontational¹

confrontation + -al ¹

Example Sentences

She said she decided to end the conversation as it became "more aggressive" and "confrontational", but that while walking away the pair followed and shouted at her.

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If it doesn’t, China can always switch to a less confrontational approach.

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While Wilders took a confrontational approach, she said, Jetten “had a very unifying style.”

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The review, commissioned from the consultancy HR Rewired, concluded that darker-skinned Met staff were "labelled confrontational" while lighter-skinned employees might receive quicker empathy and leniency.

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López Obrador, especially, vowed to break with the confrontational approaches of past Mexican administrations, whose military operations he said failed to weaken cartels and only fueled violence.

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Related Words

• adversarial 
• antagonistic 
• bellicose 
• combative