Word Meanings - ENCOUNTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend

Additional info about word: ENCOUNTER

To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. Acts xvii. 18. I am most fortunate thus accidentally to encounter you. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENCOUNTER)

• Battle
• Fight
• conflict
• contest
• combat
• engagement
• encounter
• action
• Collision
• Encounter
• crash
• opposition
• impact
• concussion
• clash
• Combat
• contention
• struggle
• arms
• battle
• Conflict
• fight
• Confront
• Oppose
• face
• resist
• intimidate
• menace

Related words: (words related to ENCOUNTER)

• BATTLE
  Fertile. See Battel, a.
• CLASH
  1. To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together. 2. To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• ENCOUNTERER
  One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
• COMBAT
  To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• CONCUSSION
  A condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain. (more info) 1. A shaking or agitation; a shock; caused by the collision
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• STRUGGLER
  One who struggles.
• COLLISION
  1. The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing. 2. A state of opposition; antagonism; interference. The collision of contrary false principles. Bp. Warburton.
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• IMPACT
  To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place. Woodward.
• COMBATTANT
  In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.
• FIGHTINGLY
  Pugnaciously.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• CONTESTATION
  1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn
• CONFLICTIVE
  Tending to conflict; conflicting. Sir W. Hamilton.
• ACTIONABLE
  That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
• CONFRONTE
  See AFFRONTé
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• REDACTION
  The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• FACTION
  One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• EMBATTLEMENT
  1. An intended parapet; a battlement. 2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.