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Conflicting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.

2. Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.

3. In the absence of all conflicting evidence.

Conflicting [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing.

Conflicting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Conflict

Contrariety Roget’s Thesaurus §14

N. contrariety, contrast, foil, antithesis, oppositeness, contradiction, antagonism, clashing, repugnance, inversion, the opposite, the reverse, the inverse, the converse, the antipodes, the antithesis, the other extreme

V. be contrary, contrast with, oppose, diller toto coelo, invert, reverse, turn the tables, turn topsy-turvy, turn end for end, turn upside down, turn inside out, contradict, contravene, antagonize

Adj. contrary, contrarious, contrariant, opposite, counter, dead against, converse, reverse, opposed, antithetical, contrasted, antipodean, antagonistic, opposing, conflicting, inconsistent, contradictory, at cross purposes, negative, hostile, differing toto coelo, diametrically opposite, diametrically opposed, as opposite as black and white, as opposite as light and darkness, as opposite as fire and water, as opposite as the poles, as different as night and day, "hyperion to a satyr", quite the contrary, quite the reverse, no such thing, just the other way, tout au contraire

Adv. contrarily, contra, contrariwise, per contra, on the contrary, nay rather, vice versa, on the other hand

Phr. "all concord's born of contraries", thesis, antithesis, synthesis

Counteraction Roget’s Thesaurus §179

N. counteraction, opposition, contrariety, antagonism, polarity, clashing, collision, interference, inhibition, resistance, renitency, friction, reaction, retroaction, counterblast, neutralization, vis inertiae, check, voluntary opposition, voluntary resistance, repression, opposites, action and reaction, yang and yin, yang-yin (contrariety) 14

V. counteract, run counter, clash, cross, interfere with, conflict with, contravene, jostle, go against, run against, beat against, militate against, stultify, antagonize, block, oppose, traverse, withstand, hinder, repress, react, undo, neutralize, counterpoise, overpoise

Adj. counteracting, antagonistic, conflicting, retroactive, renitent, reactionary, contrary

Adv. although, in spite of, against

Phr. "for every action there is a reaction, equal in force and opposite in direction", words relating to space 1, abstract space