CONFLICTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conflicting mean? 

• CONFLICTING (adjective)
  The adjective CONFLICTING has 2 senses:

1. in disagreement

2. on bad terms

  Familiarity information: CONFLICTING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFLICTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In disagreement

Synonyms:

at odds; conflicting; contradictory; self-contradictory

Context example:

contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness

Similar:

inconsistent (displaying a lack of consistency)

Sense 2

Meaning:

On bad terms

Context example:

conflicting opinions

Similar:

opposed (being in opposition or having an opponent)

 Context examples 

Earlier studies of the potential effects of POP exposure during pregnancy have produced conflicting results.

(Persistent organic pollutants in maternal blood linked to smaller fetal size, National Institutes of Health)

Numerous studies have searched for a potential genetic role of tryptophan hydroxylase mutations in neuropsychiatric indications, with conflicting results.

(Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

She longed to bid me hasten my return; a thousand conflicting emotions rendered her mute as she bade me a tearful, silent farewell.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The smith’s broad and usually stolid face was all working with his conflicting emotions.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While apparently absorbed in her own affairs, Jo watched Beth, and after many conflicting conjectures, finally settled upon one which seemed to explain the change in her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

From the evening at Ruth's Martin brought away with him strange confusions and conflicting feelings.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now much disturbed, and dazzled with conflicting gleams of hope and dread, I looked at her for some explanation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

White Fang was torn by conflicting feelings, impulses.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I went back to the hotel with the big book under my arm, and with very conflicting feelings in my breast.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Previous studies of these nutrients as a treatment for male infertility have produced conflicting results.

(Zinc, folic acid supplement does not improve male fertility, National Institutes of Health)