Related Words:
- refractory
collapse - temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to nervous or sexual stimuli; "the refractory period of a muscle fiber"
- not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"; "stubborn rust stains" related words >
- adversary,
- adversative,
- adverse,
- alien,
- antagonistic,
- anti,
- antipathetic,
- antithetic,
- at odds,
- averse,
- beyond control,
- breachy,
- bullheaded,
- china,
- clashing,
- clay,
- competitive,
- complaining,
- con,
- conflicting,
- contradictory,
- contrary,
- contumacious,
- counter,
- cross,
- cursory,
- defiant,
- deviant,
- differing,
- disaccordant,
- disagreeing,
- disinclined,
- disobedient,
- disputatious,
- disputing,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- dissident,
- enamel,
- enemy,
- forced,
- fractious,
- headstrong,
- hostile,
- impatient of control,
- incorrigible,
- indisposed,
- indocile,
- indomitable,
- inimical,
- insuppressible,
- intractable,
- involuntary,
- irrepressible,
- mulish,
- mutinous,
- negative,
- nonconformable,
- nonconforming,
- noncooperative,
- nonobservant,
- objecting,
- obstinate,
- obstreperous,
- obstructive,
- on the barricades,
- opponent,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- oppositional,
- oppositive,
- oppugnant,
- ornery,
- out of hand,
- overthwart,
- perfunctory,
- perverse,
- porcelain,
- proof against,
- protesting,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- recusant,
- reluctant,
- renitent,
- repellent,
- repugnant,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- resistive,
- restive,
- retardant,
- retardative,
- rival,
- self-willed,
- shrewish,
- stiff-necked,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- unadaptable,
- unadjustable,
- unbiddable,
- uncompliant,
- unconforming,
- unconsenting,
- uncontrollable,
- uncooperative,
- unfavorable,
- unfriendly,
- ungovernable,
- unmalleable,
- unmanageable,
- unmoldable,
- unpropitious,
- unruly,
- unsubmissive,
- unwilling,
- unyielding,
- up in arms,
- wild,
- withstanding
- opposed
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- being in opposition or having an opponent; "two bitterly opposed schools of thought"
- in opposition to (a policy or attitude etc.); "an opposing vote" related words >
- adversary,
- adversative,
- adverse,
- adversive,
- against,
- alien,
- antagonistic,
- anti,
- antipathetic,
- antithetic,
- antonymous,
- at cross-purposes,
- at odds,
- at variance with,
- averse,
- balancing,
- clashing,
- compensating,
- competitive,
- con,
- conflicting,
- confronting,
- contradictory,
- contradistinct,
- contrapositive,
- contrarious,
- contrary,
- contrary to,
- contrasted,
- contrasting,
- converse,
- counter,
- counteractive,
- counterbalancing,
- counterpoised,
- countervailing,
- cross,
- cursory,
- dead against,
- detrimental,
- differing,
- difficult,
- disaccordant,
- disagreeing,
- disappointed,
- disapprobatory,
- disapproving,
- discontented,
- discordant,
- discrepant,
- disenchanted,
- disgruntled,
- disillusioned,
- disinclined,
- disobedient,
- displeased,
- dissatisfied,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- enemy,
- eyeball to eyeball,
- forced,
- fractious,
- hard,
- harmful,
- hostile,
- in conflict with,
- in opposition,
- in opposition to,
- inconsistent,
- indignant,
- indisposed,
- indocile,
- inimical,
- inverse,
- involuntary,
- low,
- miserable,
- mutinous,
- negative,
- noncooperative,
- not easy,
- obstinate,
- obverse,
- opponent,
- opposed to,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- opposite to,
- oppositional,
- oppositive,
- oppugnant,
- overthwart,
- perfunctory,
- perverse,
- poor,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- repugnant,
- resistant,
- reverse,
- rigorous,
- rival,
- sinister,
- squared off,
- stressful,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- troublesome,
- troublous,
- trying,
- turned-off,
- unappreciative,
- unapproving,
- uncomplimentary,
- unconsenting,
- uncooperative,
- unfavorable,
- unfriendly,
- unhappy,
- unpropitious,
- untoward,
- unwilling,
- wretched
- confrontation
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- a focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison
- the act of hostile groups opposing each other; "the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions"; "the invaders encountered stiff opposition"
- a hostile disagreement face-to-face
- discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions
- a bold challenge related words >
- allegory,
- analogy,
- antagonism,
- anteposition,
- antipathy,
- antithesis,
- audience,
- balancing,
- bargaining,
- bargaining session,
- clashing,
- collision,
- collision course,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- conclave,
- confab,
- confabulation,
- conference,
- conflict,
- confrontment,
- congress,
- consultation,
- contention,
- contradiction,
- contradistinction,
- contraindication,
- contraposition,
- contrariety,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- convention,
- correlation,
- council,
- council fire,
- council of war,
- counterposition,
- cross-purposes,
- disagreement,
- discrepancy,
- discussion,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- encounter,
- exchange of views,
- eyeball-to-eyeball encounter,
- high-level talk,
- hostility,
- huddle,
- inconsistency,
- inimicalness,
- interchange of views,
- interview,
- joining,
- likening,
- matching,
- meeting,
- metaphor,
- narrow squeak,
- near thing,
- near-miss,
- negotiations,
- news conference,
- opposing,
- oppositeness,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- oppugnance,
- oppugnancy,
- palaver,
- parallelism,
- parley,
- perversity,
- polar opposition,
- polarity,
- polarization,
- posing against,
- pourparler,
- powwow,
- press conference,
- proportion,
- relation,
- rencontre,
- repugnance,
- seance,
- session,
- showdown,
- simile,
- similitude,
- sitting,
- summit,
- summit conference,
- summitry,
- trope of comparison,
- weighing
- hateful
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- evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly
- characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood" related words >
- abhorrent,
- abominable,
- acrid,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- baleful,
- base,
- beastly,
- belligerent,
- below contempt,
- beneath contempt,
- bitchy,
- bitter,
- blameworthy,
- brutal,
- caustic,
- clashing,
- colliding,
- conflicting,
- contemptible,
- contemptuous,
- crude,
- cussed,
- deplorable,
- despicable,
- despiteful,
- detestable,
- dire,
- disgusting,
- dreadful,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- evil,
- execrable,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- forbidding,
- foul,
- full of hate,
- fulsome,
- grievous,
- gross,
- harmful,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- hostile,
- ignoble,
- infamous,
- iniquitous,
- invidious,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- malefic,
- maleficent,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malign,
- malignant,
- malodorous,
- mean,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmic,
- monstrous,
- nasty,
- nauseating,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- noxious,
- objectionable,
- obnoxious,
- obscene,
- odious,
- offensive,
- ornery,
- outrageous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- quarrelsome,
- rancorous,
- rank,
- rebarbative,
- regrettable,
- repellent,
- reprehensible,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- rotten,
- sad,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- set against,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sickening,
- sordid,
- sore,
- spiteful,
- squalid,
- stinking,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- unclean,
- unlikable,
- venomous,
- vile,
- villainous,
- virulent,
- vitriolic,
- wicked,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched
- quarrelsome
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- given to quarreling; "arguing children"; "quarrelsome when drinking" related words >
- acrid,
- adverse,
- aggressive,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- argumental,
- argumentative,
- battling,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bickering,
- bitter,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- brawling,
- cankered,
- cat-and-dog,
- cat-and-doggish,
- caustic,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- choleric,
- clashing,
- colliding,
- combative,
- conflicting,
- contending,
- contentious,
- contestant,
- contesting,
- contrary,
- controversial,
- counter,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- cross,
- despiteful,
- dialectic,
- disagreeable,
- disputant,
- disputatious,
- dissentient,
- dissentious,
- dissident,
- divisive,
- dyspeptic,
- enemy,
- eristic,
- factional,
- factious,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fighting,
- fractious,
- full of fight,
- full of hate,
- grouchy,
- hateful,
- hawkish,
- hostile,
- ill-humored,
- inimical,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- litigious,
- logomachic,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malignant,
- martial,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- offensive,
- partisan,
- peevish,
- petulant,
- pilpulistic,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- pro and con,
- pugnacious,
- querulous,
- rancorous,
- repugnant,
- saber-rattling,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- scrappy,
- set against,
- shrewish,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- sore,
- spiteful,
- squabbling,
- striving,
- struggling,
- testy,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- unfriendly,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- venomous,
- virulent,
- vitriolic,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wrangling
- Discordia,
- Eris,
- Kilkenny cats,
- abhorrence,
- abomination,
- alienation,
- allergy,
- altercation,
- animosity,
- animus,
- antagonism,
- antipathy,
- argument,
- aversion,
- bad blood,
- bickering,
- bitterness,
- cat-and-dog life,
- clash,
- clashing,
- cold sweat,
- collision,
- combat,
- competition,
- conflict,
- contention,
- contentiousness,
- contest,
- contestation,
- contrariety,
- contrariness,
- controversy,
- creeping flesh,
- cross-purposes,
- cut and thrust,
- daggers,
- dead set,
- debate,
- detestation,
- disaccord,
- disaffection,
- disaffinity,
- discord,
- discordance,
- discordancy,
- disgust,
- disharmony,
- dislike,
- disputation,
- dispute,
- dissension,
- estrangement,
- fighting,
- fractiousness,
- friction,
- gall,
- hate,
- hatred,
- horror,
- hostility,
- ill will,
- incompatibility,
- incompatibleness,
- inharmoniousness,
- inharmony,
- inimicalness,
- jangle,
- jar,
- litigation,
- loathing,
- logomachy,
- malevolence,
- malice,
- malignancy,
- malignity,
- mischief,
- mortal horror,
- nausea,
- negativeness,
- noncooperation,
- obstinacy,
- open conflict,
- oppugnancy,
- paper war,
- perverseness,
- polemic,
- quarrel,
- quarreling,
- quarrelsomeness,
- rancor,
- recalcitrance,
- refractoriness,
- repugnance,
- repulsion,
- rivalry,
- rub,
- scrapping,
- shuddering,
- spite,
- spleen,
- squabbling,
- strained relations,
- strife,
- struggle,
- tension,
- uncooperativeness,
- uncordiality,
- unfriendliness,
- unharmoniousness,
- unpleasantness,
- vying,
- war,
- war of words,
- warfare,
- words,
- wrangling
- incompatible
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- not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors"
- incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification
- used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture related words >
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- anomalous,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- antithetic,
- assorted,
- at cross-purposes,
- at loggerheads,
- at odds,
- at variance,
- at war,
- autistic,
- bashful,
- chill,
- chilly,
- clashing,
- close,
- cold,
- conflicting,
- contradictory,
- contrary,
- contrasted,
- contrasting,
- cool,
- cranky,
- cross,
- departing,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- different,
- differentiated,
- differing,
- disaccordant,
- disagreeable,
- disagreeing,
- disconsonant,
- discordant,
- discrepant,
- discrete,
- discriminated,
- disharmonious,
- disjoined,
- disparate,
- disproportionate,
- dissident,
- dissimilar,
- dissociable,
- dissonant,
- distinct,
- distinguished,
- divergent,
- diverging,
- divers,
- diverse,
- diversified,
- frosty,
- grating,
- heterogeneous,
- hostile,
- icy,
- immiscible,
- in disagreement,
- inaccordant,
- incoherent,
- incommensurable,
- incommensurate,
- incongruous,
- inconsequent,
- inconsistent,
- inconsonant,
- inharmonious,
- inhospitable,
- inimical,
- insociable,
- irreconcilable,
- jangling,
- jarring,
- many,
- mismatched,
- mopey,
- mopish,
- morose,
- motley,
- multifarious,
- negative,
- nongregarious,
- opposed,
- opposite,
- out of accord,
- out of proportion,
- out of whack,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- poles apart,
- poles asunder,
- repugnant,
- self-contained,
- self-contradictory,
- self-sufficient,
- separate,
- separated,
- several,
- snug,
- socially incompatible,
- strained,
- sullen,
- tense,
- unamiable,
- unamicable,
- unclubbable,
- uncommunicative,
- uncompanionable,
- unconformable,
- uncongenial,
- uncordial,
- unequal,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unharmonious,
- unlike,
- unsociable,
- unsocial,
- unsuited,
- variant,
- varied,
- variegated,
- various,
- varying,
- widely apart,
- worlds apart
- hate
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- the emotion of hate; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
- dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards; "I hate Mexican food"; "She detests politicians" related words >
- abhor,
- abhorrence,
- abhorrent,
- abominable,
- abominate,
- abomination,
- accursed,
- acrimonious,
- allergy,
- anathema,
- animosity,
- animus,
- antagonism,
- antipathy,
- aversion,
- be all heart,
- be down on,
- be hostile to,
- bear a grudge,
- bear ill will,
- bear malice,
- belligerence,
- bete noire,
- bitchy,
- bitter,
- black,
- blasphemous,
- catty,
- clash,
- clashing,
- cold sweat,
- collision,
- conflict,
- contemn,
- contemptible,
- contention,
- creeping flesh,
- damnable,
- deprecate,
- despicable,
- despise,
- despiteful,
- despitefulness,
- detest,
- detestable,
- detestation,
- disapprove,
- disapprove of,
- disdain,
- disfavor,
- disgust,
- dislike,
- disrelish,
- distasteful,
- distressing,
- enmity,
- evil,
- execrable,
- execrate,
- execration,
- foul,
- friction,
- hateful,
- hatred,
- have deep feelings,
- hold in abomination,
- hold it against,
- horrid,
- horror,
- hostility,
- ill will,
- ill-natured,
- infamous,
- loathe,
- loathing,
- love,
- malevolence,
- malevolent,
- malice,
- malign,
- malignity,
- mean,
- mislike,
- mortal horror,
- nasty,
- nausea,
- not care for,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- odium,
- opprobrious,
- owe a grudge,
- peeve,
- pet peeve,
- phobia,
- quarrelsomeness,
- rancor,
- repellent,
- reprehensible,
- repugnance,
- repulsion,
- repulsive,
- resent,
- resentful,
- resist,
- revulsion,
- scorn,
- scurvy,
- shrink from,
- shudder at,
- shuddering,
- spite,
- spiteful,
- spitefulness,
- trouble,
- unspeakable,
- utterly detest,
- vicious,
- vile
- jarring
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- making or causing a harsh and irritating sound; "the jarring noise of the iron gate scraping on the sidewalk" related words >
- agitating,
- ajar,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- astonishing,
- at cross-purposes,
- at loggerheads,
- at odds,
- at variance,
- at war,
- bouncy,
- breathtaking,
- bumpy,
- charged,
- choppy,
- clashing,
- cliff-hanging,
- conflicting,
- confused,
- contradictory,
- contrary,
- cranky,
- cross,
- differing,
- disaccordant,
- disagreeable,
- disagreeing,
- discordant,
- discrepant,
- disharmonious,
- disproportionate,
- disquieting,
- dissident,
- dissonant,
- distracting,
- disturbing,
- divergent,
- dry,
- electric,
- electrifying,
- exciting,
- exhilarating,
- galvanic,
- grating,
- grinding,
- harsh,
- heady,
- heart-expanding,
- heart-stirring,
- heart-swelling,
- heart-thrilling,
- hoarse,
- hostile,
- immiscible,
- impressive,
- inaccordant,
- incompatible,
- inflammatory,
- inharmonious,
- intoxicating,
- jangling,
- jangly,
- jogglety,
- joggling,
- joggly,
- jolting,
- jolty,
- jostling,
- maddening,
- mind-blowing,
- moving,
- negative,
- nerve-jangling,
- nerve-racking,
- nerve-rending,
- nerve-shaking,
- nerve-trying,
- out of accord,
- out of whack,
- overcoming,
- overmastering,
- overpowering,
- overwhelming,
- perturbing,
- piquant,
- provocative,
- provoking,
- rasping,
- raspy,
- raucous,
- ravishing,
- repugnant,
- rough,
- scraping,
- scrapy,
- scratching,
- scratchy,
- shocking,
- soul-stirring,
- spirit-stirring,
- staggering,
- startling,
- stimulating,
- stimulative,
- stirring,
- strident,
- stridulous,
- striking,
- stunning,
- surprising,
- suspenseful,
- suspensive,
- tantalizing,
- telling,
- thrilling,
- thrilly,
- troubling,
- uncongenial,
- unharmonious,
- unsettling,
- upsetting,
- variant,
- warring
- disparity
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- inequality or difference in some respect related words >
- agreement to disagree,
- alienation,
- antagonism,
- apostasy,
- argumentation,
- asymmetry,
- bad copy,
- bad likeness,
- camouflage,
- clashing,
- conflict,
- contradiction,
- contrariety,
- contrast,
- controversy,
- counter-culture,
- cross-purposes,
- departure,
- deviation,
- difference,
- difference of opinion,
- difficulty,
- disaccord,
- disaccordance,
- disagreement,
- disapprobation,
- disapproval,
- disconformity,
- discongruity,
- discord,
- discordance,
- discordancy,
- discrepancy,
- discreteness,
- disequilibrium,
- disguise,
- disharmony,
- disproportion,
- dissatisfaction,
- dissemblance,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissentience,
- dissidence,
- dissimilarity,
- dissimilation,
- dissimilitude,
- dissonance,
- distinction,
- distinctness,
- disunion,
- disunity,
- divergence,
- divergency,
- diversity,
- dividedness,
- division,
- dropping out,
- faction,
- far cry,
- gap,
- heterogeneity,
- imbalance,
- imparity,
- inaccordance,
- inadequacy,
- incommensurability,
- incomparability,
- incompatibility,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- inconsonance,
- inequality,
- inequity,
- inharmoniousness,
- inharmony,
- injustice,
- insufficiency,
- irreconcilability,
- irregularity,
- jarring,
- makeup,
- mere caricature,
- minority opinion,
- misunderstanding,
- mixture,
- negation,
- nonagreement,
- nonassent,
- nonconcurrence,
- nonconformity,
- nonconsent,
- nonuniformity,
- odds,
- opposition,
- oppugnancy,
- otherness,
- overbalance,
- polarization,
- poor imitation,
- recusance,
- recusancy,
- rejection,
- repudiation,
- repugnance,
- secession,
- separateness,
- shortcoming,
- unbalance,
- unconformity,
- underground,
- unevenness,
- unfair discrimination,
- unharmoniousness,
- unlikeness,
- unorthodoxy,
- unresemblance,
- unsameness,
- unsimilarity,
- variance,
- variation,
- variegation,
- variety,
- withdrawal
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