Words and phrases that have a meaning related to dispute: (222 results)
Often used in the same context:
squabble, disagreement, feud, quarrel, standoff, wrangle, tiff, tussle, impasse, imbroglio, controversy, dustup, skirmish, negotiations, fracas, stoush, conflict, confrontation, rift, spats, debate, brouhaha, scuffle, stalemate, contretemps, saga, furor, haggling, altercation, acrimony, bickering, brawl, slanging match, tensions, battle, kerfuffle, strife, discord, argument, lawsuit, discussions, uproar, furore, negations, mediation, catfight, loggerheads, talks, grievance, gunfight, rivalry, fistfight, walkout, dickering, clashes, litigation, flap, deadlock, quibbling, misunderstanding, infighting, negotiating, differences, issue, incident, fiasco, donnybrook, animosity, countersuit, schism, duel, showdown, wildcat strike, rumpus, ruckus, crisis, arbitrator, arbitration, objections, scandal, troubles, settlement, counterclaims, friction, unrest, sue, discrepancy, allegations, quandary, protest, struggle, fisticuffs, flareup, flashpoint, case, dilemma, tug, controversary, hostilities, dissension, melee, complaint, controversies, disputes, disagreements, debates, contention, disputation, contentions, struggles, conflicts, contest, dissent, grievances, polemic, adjudicative, appeal, claim, elaborate, expedited, expeditious, legislated, multigrid, multistep, payment, referral, reporting, routinized, speedier, thaw, abductive, accelerated, acceptable, algorithmic
More specific:
arguing, call, contestation, fall out, fight, polemicise, polemicize, polemize, row, run-in, spat, tilt, words
Appears in the definition of:
., accepted, acrimonious, arbitration, argle-bargle, arguing, argument, argy-bargy, at loggerheads, bone of contention, circumstantial evidence, contend, contention, contentious, contest, contestation, controversy, direct evidence, disceptation, disputation, disputatious, disputative, dustup, fight, gulf war, indirect evidence, indisputability, indisputable, indubitability, infantile autism, intercede, intercession, intervention, iran-iraq war, issue, litigious, mononychus olecranus, neutral, neutrality, niggling, out-of-court settlement, philip of valois, philip vi, polemic, polemical, position, quarrel, represent, repugn, row, run-in, settle, settled, side, stickle, submission, sure, tilt, undisputed, unquestionability, unquestionableness, words, wrangle
More general:
argue, fence, oppugn, question, resistance
Synonyms:
Also try:altercate, argufy, challenge, contravention, difference, difference of opinion, gainsay
— Adjectives for dispute: much, industrial, long, serious, bitter, territorial, legal, little, soviet, political, considerable, more...
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