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Main Entry: disagreement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dispute, quarrel

Synonyms:

altercation, animosity, antagonism, argument, atmospherics, bickering, breach, break, clash, clashing, conflict, contention, contest, controversy, cross-purposes, debate, difference, discord, dissent, dissidence, disunion, disunity, division, divisiveness, falling out, feud, fight, friction, hassle, hostility, ill feeling, ill will, jarring, misunderstanding, opposition, rupture, spat, split, squabble, strife, tension, variance, vendetta, words, wrangle

Antonyms:

acquiescence, agreement, harmony, peace
Main Entry: Mexican standoff
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: impasse

Synonyms:

collision, cross-purposes, dead heat, deadlock, even money, showdown, standoff, wash
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Disagreement.
Category: 4. GENERAL RELATION

Synonyms:

-nouns
disagreement; discord, discordance; dissonance, dissidence, discrepancy; unconformity; incongruity, incongruence; discongruity, mesalliance; jarring; dissension; conflict (opposition); bickering, clashing, misunderstanding, wrangle., disparity, mismatch, disproportion; dissimilitude, inequality; disproportionateness; variance, divergence, repugnance., unfitness; inaptitude, impropriety; inapplicability; inconsistency, inconcinnity; irrelevancy (irrelation)., misjoining, misjoinder; syncretism, intrusion, interference; concordia discors., fish out of water.
-verbs
disagree; clash, jar (discord); interfere, intrude, come amiss; not concern; mismatch; humano capiti cervicem jungere equinam.
-adjectives
disagreeing; discordant, discrepant; at variance, at war; hostile, antagonistic, repugnant, incompatible, irreconcilable, inconsistent with; unconformable, exceptional; intrusive, incongruous; disproportionate, disproportionated; unharmonious; unconsonant; divergent, repugnant to., inapt, unapt, inappropriate, improper; unsuited, unsuitable; inapplicable, not to the point; unfit, unfitting, unbefitting; unbecoming; illtimed, unseasonable, mal a propos, inadmissible; inapposite (irrelevant)., uncongenial; ill-assorted, ill-sorted; mismatched, misjoined, misplaced, misclassified; unaccommodating, irreducible, uncommensurable; unsympathetic., out of character, out of keeping, out of proportion, out of joint, out of tune, out of place, out of season, out of its element; at odds with, at variance with.
-adverbs
in defiance, in contempt, in spite of; discordantly; a tort et a travers.
-phrases
asinus ad lyram.

Antonyms:

agreement
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