All confrontation synonyms

noun confrontation

• contest — A contest is a competition or game in which people try to win.
• showdown — the laying down of one's cards, face upward, in a card game, especially poker.
• fight — a battle or combat.
• battle — A battle is a violent fight between groups of people, especially one between military forces during a war.
• strife — vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
• meeting — an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races: a track meet.
• crisis — A crisis is a situation in which something or someone is affected by one or more very serious problems.
• dispute — to engage in argument or debate.
• affray — An affray is a noisy and violent fight, especially in a public place.
• set-to — a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
• hostility — a hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity; antagonism; unfriendliness.
• conflict — Conflict is serious disagreement and argument about something important. If two people or groups are in conflict, they have had a serious disagreement or argument and have not yet reached agreement.
• clash — When people clash, they fight, argue, or disagree with each other.
• skirmish — Military. a fight between small bodies of troops, especially advanced or outlying detachments of opposing armies.
• war — a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
• opposition — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
• argument — An argument is a statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.
• disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
• quarrel — a square-headed bolt or arrow, formerly used with a crossbow.
• altercation — An altercation is a noisy argument or disagreement.
• row — record