conflictional

comparative more conflictional · superlative most conflictional

1. rareOf, pertaining to, or characterized by conflict.

   This latter leadership reflected and reinforced more the "consensual" as opposed to "conflictional" political and social tendencies.

   1981, David McBride, M. H. Little, “The Afro-American Elite, 1930-1940: A Historical and Statistical Profile,”, in Phylon, volume 42, number 2, page 105

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   These results are conflictional in that despite the patient's own perception of increase in ability to function socially, they are experiencing a considerable increase in somatic distress.

   1979, B. P. Angle et al., “The Heroin Addict's View of Personal Change During Methadone Maintenance Treatment,”, in Addiction, volume 74, number 2, page 210

   Out of all this emerged a conflicted federalism, not a genuine New Federalism II, that combined cooperative and coercive, collaborative and conflictional, and independent ("fend for yourself") and interdependent (continuing intergovernmental assistance) features.

   2001, David B. Walker, “New Federalism. III. A Reformed System in the Making?”, in International Journal of Public Administration, volume 24, number 1, page 57

   Synonyms: conflictful, conflictive, conflictory, conflictual