Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

conflictional

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: con-flic-tion-al
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, pertaining to, or characterized by conflict.

Example Sentences

"These results are conflictional in that despite the patient's own perception of increase in ability to function socially, they are experiencing a considerable increase in somatic distress."
"This latter leadership reflected and reinforced more the "consensual" as opposed to "conflictional" political and social tendencies."
"Out of all this emerged a conflicted federalism, not a genuine New Federalism II, that combined cooperative and coercive, collaborative and conflictional, and independent ("fend for yourself") and interdependent (continuing intergovernmental assistance) features."

Etymology

Etymology tree English confliction Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English conflictional From confliction + -al.

Inflected Forms

more conflictional (comparative) most conflictional (superlative)

Synonyms

conflictful conflictive conflictory conflictual

Questions

What does conflictional mean?: Of, pertaining to, or characterized by conflict.
Where does conflictional come from?: Etymology tree English confliction Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English conflictional From confliction + -al.

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