Confrontation
Confrontation noun - An earnest effort for superiority or victory over another.
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Synonyms for Confrontation
Incident and confrontation are semantically related in conflict topic. In some cases you can use "Incident" instead a noun "Confrontation".
Incident
Incident noun - Something that happens.
Confrontation and incident are semantically related in disturbance topic. Sometimes you can use "Confrontation" instead a noun "Incident", if it concerns topics such as fight.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- disturbance and confrontation
- disturbance and incident
- commotion and confrontation
- commotion and incident
- encounter and confrontation
- encounter and incident
- conflict and confrontation
- conflict and incident
- scene and confrontation
- scene and incident
- affair and confrontation
- affair and incident
- fight and confrontation
- fight and incident
How words are described
| similar | similar confrontation | similar incident |
| original | original confrontation | original incident |
| single | single confrontation | single incident |
| nasty | nasty confrontation | nasty incident |
| Other adjectives: actual, entire, real, big, serious, little, disastrous, tragic, famous, early, major, dramatic, minor, later, further, last, latest, earlier, previous. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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It doesn't work, but Mauri and Fernando do end up having a verbal confrontation over the incident.
Source: Series / Aquí no hay quien viva -
He narrowly escapes a confrontation with the leader of the attack: Albert Wesker, who was thought to have perished during the Mansion Incident.
- Another example is during his story about his 30th birthday, he keeps cutting to the goat that he's inevitably going to get into a confrontation with... only to realize at the end of the episode, Robin was living with him during the incident, so it was actually his 31st birthday instead.
Source: Once More, with Clarity!
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Incident and Confrontation. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/confrontation/incident
Confrontation & Incident. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/confrontation/incident>.
Incident or Confrontation. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/confrontation/incident.
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