confrontation
The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.
Other meanings
A conflict between armed forces.
Synonyms
- encounter
- face-off
Related words
- autoconfrontation
- carefrontation
- confrontationism
- confrontationist
- nonconfrontation
- reconfrontation
- confrontational
- self-confrontation
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “confrontation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.