Word Meanings - STRIFE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of striving; earnest endeavor. Shak. 2. Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. Doting about questions and strifes of words. 1 Tim. vi. 4. Thus gods contended -- noble

Additional info about word: STRIFE

1. The act of striving; earnest endeavor. Shak. 2. Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. Doting about questions and strifes of words. 1 Tim. vi. 4. Thus gods contended -- noble strife -Who most should ease the wants of life. Congreve. 3. Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle. Twenty of them fought in this black strife. Shak. These vows, thus granted, raised a strife above Betwixt the god of war and queen of love. Dryden. 4. That which is contended against; occasion of contest. "Lamenting her unlucky strife." Spenser. Syn. -- Contest; struggle; quarrel. See Contention.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STRIFE)

• Affray
• Broil
• tumult
• brawl
• melee
• fracas
• disturbance
• uproar
• quarrel
• strife
• wrangle
• altercation
• Animosity
• Hatred
• antipathy
• dissention
• aversion
• acrimony
• feud
• rancor
• antagonism
• bitterness
• acerbity
• hostility
• enmity
• malice
• anger
• malevolence
• ill-will
• malignity
• feeling against
• Bickering
• Wrangling
• disputing
• contention
• dispute
• Controversy
• Dispute
• disagreement
• disputation
• bickering
• question
• Feud
• Fray
• affray
• broil
• animosity
• dissension

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of STRIFE)

• To appease
• compose
• forbear
• allay
• soothe
• calm
• conciliate
• heal
• Dictate
• state
• assert
• pronounce
• enunciate
• concede
• endorse
• affirm
• grant
• allow

Related words: (words related to STRIFE)

• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• MALIGNITY
  1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature
• RANCOR
  The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred. "To stint rancour and dissencioun." Chaucer. It would not be easy to conceive the passion, rancor, and malice of their tongues and hearts. Burke. Syn. --
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• QUARRELING
  Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar"rel*ing*ly, adv.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• ASSERT
  self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• UPROARIOUS
  Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n.
• DISPUTABLE
  1. Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions. Actions, every one of which is
• ASSERTORY
  Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• FEELINGLY
  In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
• DISPUTATION
  1. The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument. 2. A rhetorical exercise in which
• QUESTIONIST
  A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time of his examination. (more info) 1. A questioner; an inquirer.
• QUESTIONABLENESS
  The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.
• DISPUTACITY
  Proneness to dispute. Bp. Ward.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• DISEMBROIL
  To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• INDISPUTABLE
  Not disputable; incontrovertible; too evident to admit of dispute. Syn. -- Incontestable; unquestionable; incontrovertible; undeniable; irrefragable; certain; positive; undoubted; sure; infallible. -- In*dis"pu*ta*ble*ness, n. -- In*dis"pu*ta*bly,