conflicting
English
Adjective
conflicting (comparative more conflicting, superlative most conflicting)
- fighting; contending; in conflict
- Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.
- in the absence of all conflicting evidence
- 1999, Herre van Oostendorp, Susan R. Goldman, The construction of mental representations during reading
- On the other hand, the more effective the current activation vector is in reactivating the conflicting information, the more likely the two conflicting pieces of information are to be coactivated.
- 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 73, in The Old Curiosity Shop:
- Of Sally Brass, conflicting rumours went abroad. Some said with confidence that she had gone down to the docks in male attire, and had become a female sailor; others darkly whispered that she had enlisted as a private in the second regiment of Foot Guards, and had been seen in uniform, and on duty, to wit, leaning on her musket and looking out of a sentry-box in St james's Park, one evening.
Derived terms
- conflictingly
Translations
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Verb
conflicting
- present participle of conflict
References
- conflicting in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.