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1. MILITARY war: warfare between opposing forces, especially a prolonged and bitter but sporadic struggle
2. difference: a disagreement or clash between ideas, principles, or people
3. PSYCHOLOGY mental struggle: a psychological state resulting from the often unconscious opposition between simultaneous but incompatible desires, needs, drives, or impulses
4. LITERATURE plot tension: opposition between or among characters or forces in a literary work that shapes or motivates the action of the plot
1. a serious disagreement or argument
2. a prolonged armed struggle
3. an incompatibility between opinions, principles, etc.: a conflict of interests
1. a: competitive or opposing action of incompatibles : antagonistic state or action (as of divergent ideas, interests, or persons) b: mental struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or external or internal demands
2. the opposition of persons or forces that gives rise to the dramatic action in a drama or fiction
1. An active disagreement between people with opposing opinions or principles
2. Fighting between two or more groups of people or countries
3. If beliefs, needs, or facts, etc. conflict, they are very different and cannot easily exist together or both be true
4. To fight or disagree actively

Wiktionary

1. A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
2. An incompatibility of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.

The Wordsmyth English Dictionary

1. To be in strong opposition or disagreement; differ
2. Discord or antagonism
3. An armed battle or war
4. A tense or angry disagreement
5. Incompatibility

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

1. A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war
2. A state of disharmony between incompatible or antithetical persons, ideas, or interests; a clash
3. Psychology; A psychic struggle, often unconscious, resulting from the opposition or simultaneous functioning of mutually exclusive impulses, desires, or tendencies
4. Opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially opposition that motivates or shapes the action of the plot

Infoplease Dictionary

1. To come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash
2. To fight or contend; do battle
3. A fight, battle, or struggle, esp. a prolonged struggle; strife
4. Controversy; quarrel
5. Discord of action, feeling, or effect; antagonism or opposition, as of interests or principles
6. A striking together; collision
7. Incompatibility or interference, as of one idea, desire, event, or activity with another
8. Psychiatry; A mental struggle arising from opposing demands or impulses

UltraLingua English Dictionary

1. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests
2. An incompatibility of dates or events
3. An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
4. Opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings
5. Opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces
6. To be in conflict
7. To go against, as of rules and laws

Cambridge Dictionary of American English

1. An active disagreement, as between opposing opinions or needs
2. A conflict of interest is a situation in which someone's private, esp. financial, interests are opposed to their responsibilities to other people

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

1. A striking or dashing against each other, as of two moving bodies in opposition; violent collision of substances; as a conflict of elements, or waves; a conflict of particles in ebulltion
2. A fighting; combat, as between men, and applicable to individuals or to armies; as, the conflict was long and desperate
3. Contention; strife; contest.
In our last conflict, four of his five wits went halting off
4. Struggling with difficulties; a striving to oppose, or overcome
The good man has a perpetual conflict with his evil propensities
5. A struggling of the mind; distress; anxiety. Colossians 2
6. The last struggle of life; agony; as the conflict with death
7. Opposing operations; countervailing action; collision; opposition
8. To strike or dash against; to meet and oppose, as bodies driven by violence; as conflicting waves or elements
9. To drive or strike against, as contending men, or armies; to fight; to contend with violence; as conflicting armies
10. To strive or struggle to resist and overcome; as men conflicting with difficulties
11. To be in opposition or contradictory

Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition

1. way of thinking about results: a straightforward practical way of thinking about things or dealing with problems, concerned with results rather than with theories and principles
2. way of evaluating theories: a philosophical view that a theory or concept should be evaluated in terms of how it works and its consequences as the standard for action and thought

Compact Oxford English Dictionary

1. a pragmatic attitude or policy
2. Philosophy an approach that evaluates theories or beliefs in terms of the success of their practical application

Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition

1. a practical approach to problems and affairs
2. an American movement in philosophy founded by C. S. Peirce and William James and marked by the doctrines that the meaning of conceptions is to be sought in their practical bearings, that the function of thought is to guide action, and that truth is preeminently to be tested by the practical consequences of belief

Cambridge International Dictionary of English

1. MAINLY APPROVING when you deal with a problem in a realistic way rather than obeying fixed theories, ideas or rules

Wiktionary

1. The pursuit of practicality over aesthetic qualities; a concentration on facts rather than emotions or ideals.
2. (philosophy) The idea that beliefs are identified with the actions of a believer, and the truth of beliefs with success of those actions in securing a believer's goals; the doctrine that ideas must be looked at in terms of their practical effects and consequences.
3. (politics) The theory that political problems should be met with by practical solutions rather than ideological ones.

The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

1. a practical approach to problems and issues
2. in philosophy, the theory that the meaning or truth of something is derived from its effects or consequences

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

1. Philosophy A movement consisting of varying but associated theories, originally developed by Charles S. Peirce and William James and distinguished by the doctrine that the meaning of an idea or a proposition lies in its observable practical consequences
2. A practical, matter-of-fact way of approaching or assessing situations or of solving problems

Infoplease Dictionary/ Dictionary.com

1. character or conduct that emphasizes practicality.
2. a philosophical movement or system having various forms, but generally stressing practical consequences as constituting the essential criterion in determining meaning, truth, or value

UltraLingua English Dictionary

1. The doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value

Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

1. The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method

Idealism

Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition

1. belief in perfection: belief in and pursuit of perfection as an attainable goal
2. living by high ideals
3. belief that material things are imaginary

Compact Oxford English Dictionary

1. the practice of forming or pursuing ideals, especially unrealistically
2. (in art or literature) the representation of things in ideal form

Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition

1. a (1) a theory that ultimate reality lies in a realm transcending phenomena (2) a theory that the essential nature of reality lies in consciousness or reason b (1) a theory that only the perceptible is real (2) a theory that only mental states or entities are knowable
2. a the practice of forming ideals or living under their influence b something that is idealized
3. literary or artistic theory or practice that affirms the preeminent value of imagination as compared with faithful copying of nature

Cambridge International Dictionary of English

1. a principle or a way of behaving that is of a very high standard
2. SPECIALIZED the belief in philosophy that objects in the world are ideas which only exist in the mind of God or people who see them

Wiktionary

1. The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life
2. (philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures

The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus\ Infoplease Dictionary

1. the pursuit of or belief in noble ideals, principles, and values.
in the fine arts, treatment of form and content according to standards of perfection

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

1. The act or practice of envisioning things in an ideal form
2. Pursuit of one's ideals
3. Idealized treatment of a subject in literature or art
4. Philosophy The theory that the object of external perception, in itself or as perceived, consists of ideas

Infoplease Dictionary/ Dictionary.com

1. the cherishing or pursuit of high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc.
2. the practice of idealizing.
3. something idealized; an ideal representation.
4. Fine Arts. treatment of subject matter in a work of art in which a mental conception of beauty or form is stressed, characterized usually by the selection of particular features of various models and their combination into a whole according to a standard of perfection
5. Philos.
a. any system or theory that maintains that the real is of the nature of thought or that the object of external perception consists of ideas.
b. the tendency to represent things in an ideal form, or as they might or should be rather than as they are, with emphasis on values

UltraLingua English Dictionary

1. Impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
2. The doctrine that ideas are the only reality

Cambridge Dictionary of American English

1. a principle that sets a high standard for behavior

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

1. The system or theory that makes every thing to consist in ideas, and denies the existence of material bodies