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| Main Entry: | confront |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | challenge |
| Synonyms: | accost, affront, beard, brave, call one's bluff, come up against, dare, defy, encounter, face down, face up to, face with, flout, front, go one-on-one, go up against, make my day, meet, meet eyeball-to-eyeball, oppose, repel, resist, scorn, stand up to, tell off, withstand |
| Antonyms: | back down |
| Main Entry: | accost |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | approach for conversation or solicitation |
| Synonyms: | address, annoy, bother, brace*, call, challenge, confront, cross, dare, entice, face, flag, greet, hail, proposition, salute, welcome, buttonhole*, run into, whistle for |
| Antonyms: | avoid, dodge, evade, ignore, scorn, shun |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affront |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | insult or involve in entanglement |
| Synonyms: | abuse, anger, annoy, confront, criticize, displease, encounter, face, give the cold shoulder*, meet, offend, outrage, pique, provoke, put down*, slander, slight, taunt, vex, dispraise, dump on, give a zinger, hit where one lives |
| Notes: | effrontery means shameless boldness or insulting presumptuousness while an affront is a deliberately offensive act or open insult |
| Antonyms: | appease, assuage, compliment, gratify, mollify, placate, please, satisfy, soothe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endure bad situation |
| Synonyms: | bear, beard, challenge, confront, court, dare, defy, face, go through, risk, suffer, support, take on, venture, withstand, face off, fly in the face of, outdare, stand up to |
| Antonyms: | capitulate, complain, dodge, fear, hide, skip, break down, give up, run away |
| Main Entry: | challenge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dispute, question |
| Synonyms: | accost, arouse, assert, beard, brave, call for, claim, confront, cross, dare, defy, demand, denounce, exact, face the music*, impeach, impose, impugn, inquire, investigate, provoke, query, reclaim, require, stimulate, summon, tax, test, throw down the gauntlet*, try, vindicate, ask for, call out, face down, face off, fly in the face of, hang in, insist upon, invite competition, make a point of, make a stand, object to, search out, stand up to, stick it out |
| Antonyms: | agreement, answer, decision, victory |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | compare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | examine in contrast |
| Synonyms: | analyze, approach, balance, bracket, collate, confront, consider, contemplate, contrast, correlate, divide, equal, examine, hang, inspect, juxtapose, match, measure, observe, oppose, parallel, ponder, rival, scan, scrutinize, segregate, separate, study, touch, weigh, hold a candle to, match up, place in juxtaposition, set against, set side by side, size up, stack up against, weigh against another |
| Main Entry: | contend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | compete, fight |
| Synonyms: | argue, battle, clash, confront, contest, controvert, cope, dispute, emulate, encounter, face, give all one's got, give one's all, go after, go for, go for broke, go for it*, go for jugular, grapple, have at*, jockey for position, jostle, knock oneself out, litigate, lock horns*, make play for, meet, mix it up with, oppose, oppugn, push, push for, resist, rival, scramble for, shoot at, shoot for, skirmish, stand, strive, struggle, tangle with, tug, vie, withstand |
| Antonyms: | abandon, desert, give up, leave, retreat |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contradict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be at variance with |
| Synonyms: | belie, buck, challenge, confront, contravene, controvert, counter, counteract, cross, dare, deny, differ, disaffirm, disclaim, disprove, dispute, gainsay, impugn, negate, negative, oppose, repudiate, take on, thumbs down, traverse, call in question, fly in the face of, have bone to pick, refuse to accept |
| Antonyms: | accept, agree, approve, concede, confirm, corroborate, reconcile, sign, verify, vouch, OK |
| Main Entry: | cope |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | manage, contend |
| Synonyms: | battle with, buffet, carry on, confront, deal, dispatch, encounter, endure, face, get a handle on, get by, grapple, hack it*, hack*, handle, hold one's own, live with, make go of it, make it, make out*, make the grade, pit oneself against, rise to occasion, struggle, struggle through, suffer, survive, tangle, tussle, weather, wrestle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | challenge, defy someone |
| Synonyms: | beard, brave, bully, call one's bluff, confront, cope, denounce, disregard, face, face off, front, goad, insult, knock chip off shoulder, laugh at, make my day, meet, mock, muster courage, oppose, outdare, provoke, resist, run the gauntlet, scorn, spurn, square off, step over the line, take one on, taunt, threaten, throw down gauntlet |
| Main Entry: | defy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | challenge, frustrate |
| Synonyms: | baffle, beard, brave, confront, contemn, dare, defeat, deride, despise, disregard, elude, face, flout, foil, front, gibe*, hang tough*, ignore, insult, mock, oppose, provoke, repel, repulse, resist, ridicule, scorn, slight, spurn, stick*, thwart, venture, violate, withstand, fly in face of, hurl defiance at, make my day, outdare, stick fast, take one on |
| Antonyms: | give in, obey, surrender, yield |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | encounter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen upon |
| Synonyms: | bear, bump into, close, come across, come upon, confront, descry, detect, espy, experience, face, find, front, meet, suffer, sustain, turn up, undergo, alight upon, chance upon, cross the path, fall in with, hit upon, meet up with, rub eyeballs, run across, run into, run smack into |
| Antonyms: | avoid, evade, retreat, run away |
| Main Entry: | encounter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fight, attack |
| Synonyms: | affront, battle, collide, combat, conflict, confront, contend, cross swords*, engage, face, grapple, meet, strive, struggle, clash with, do battle |
| Antonyms: | surrender, yield, let go |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | face |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come up against a situation |
| Synonyms: | abide, accost, affront, allow, bear, beard, brace, brave, brook, challenge, confront, contend, countenance, court, cross, dare, defy, encounter, endure, experience, fight, meet, oppose, resist, risk, stand, stomach*, submit, suffer, sustain, swallow*, take, take it, take on, tell off*, tolerate, venture, withstand, be confronted by, bit the bullet, cope with, deal with, eyeball, fly in face of, go up against, grapple with, make a stand, run into, square off, take the bull by the horns |
| Antonyms: | hide, retreat, run, withdraw |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | face |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be opposite; look at |
| Synonyms: | border, confront, front, gaze, glare, meet, overlook, stare, watch, be turned toward, front onto |
| Antonyms: | back |
| Main Entry: | front |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | look out on to |
| Synonyms: | border, confront, cover, encounter, face, meet, overlay, overlook, look over |
| Main Entry: | frustrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | thwart, disappoint |
| Synonyms: | annul, arrest, baffle, balk, bar, beat, block, cancel, check, circumvent, confront, conquer, counter, counteract, cramp, cramp one's style, crimp, dash, dash one's hope, defeat, depress, discourage, dishearten, foil, forbid, forestall, foul up*, give the run around, halt, hang up*, hinder, hold up, impede, inhibit, lick, negate, neutralize, nullify, obstruct, obviate, outwit, overcome, preclude, prevent, prohibit, render null and void, ruin, stump*, stymie*, upset the applecart* |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, cooperate, encourage, facilitate, help, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grapple |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grab, wrestle |
| Synonyms: | attack, battle, catch, clash, clasp, close, clutch, combat, confront, contend, cope, encounter, engage, face, fasten, fight, grasp, grip, hold, hook, hug, nab, nail, scuffle, seize, snatch, struggle, tackle, take, take on*, tussle, deal with, do battle |
| Antonyms: | release, let go |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen on |
| Synonyms: | accost, affront, bump into, clash, collide, come across, confront, contact, cross, encounter, engage, experience, face, find, front, get together, grapple, greet, hit, light, luck*, salute, see, strike, stumble, tumble, tussle, wrestle, brush against, chance on, come up against, dig up, fall in with, make a meet, meet face to face, rendezvous with, rub eyeballs, run across, run into, run up against, touch shoulders |
| Antonyms: | miss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oppose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fight, obstruct |
| Synonyms: | argue, assail, assault, attack, bar, battle, bombard, check, combat, confront, contradict, controvert, counter, cross, debate, defy, deny, disagree, disapprove, dispute, encounter, expose, face, fight, gainsay, hinder, neutralize, prevent, protest, resist, reverse, take on, taunt, thwart, withstand, call in question, counterattack, face down, fly in the face of, frown at, not countenance, run counter to, search out, speak against, stand up to, take a stand, take issue, turn the tables |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, favor, help, support |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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