Words and phrases that have a meaning related to contending: (143 results)
Often used in the same context:
arguing, claiming, asserting, competing, defending, believing, insisting, disputing, alleging, prove, challenged, contesting, denying, countered, suggesting, battling, opposing, saying, rejecting, complained, refuting, acknowledging, concluding, objecting, justifying, politicked, insinuated, fighting, criticizing, assailing, fearing, convinced, implying, favoring, contenting, concedes, dismissing, disagreed, rebutting, pressuring, estop, vying, seeking, petitioned, feuded, kowtowed, bellyached, overreaching, griping, wild card, assuring, agreeing, wronging, stating, supporting, noting, reiterating, espousing, presumed, adducing, ruled, submarined, filed, deemed, suing, demanding, lobbied, vindicating, relegating, downplayed, declaring, jockeying, reasoned, hinting, accusing, denouncing, covets, scuffling, winning, sanctioning, intimating, protested, siding, chasing, squabbled, vitiating, having, hurting, doubted, quashing, carping, maintained, undercut, waging, protracts, admitting, usurping, inferring, pursuing, hamstringing, redivide, dealt, holds, put, read, rides, serving, turns, be, breaks, doth, dozens, ex, express, intervening, nothing, serve, try, wharves, wishing, *, alternates, conflicting, rival, opposed, disparate, incommensurable, antagonistic, antithetical, essentialist, eurocentric, irreconcilable, androcentric, animistic, contrasting, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, demonological, divergent, etic, functionalist
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Also try:competitive, competitory
— Adjectives for contending: long, worth, great, latter, young, former, good, daily, present, vain, several, more...
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