conflictional

English

Etymology

confliction + -al

Adjective

conflictional (comparative more conflictional, superlative most conflictional)

  1. (rare) Of, pertaining to, or characterized by conflict.
    • 1979, B. P. Angle et al., "The Heroin Addict's View of Personal Change During Methadone Maintenance Treatment," Addiction, vol. 74, no. 2, p. 210:
      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.
    • 1981, David McBride and M. H. Little, "The Afro-American Elite, 1930-1940: A Historical and Statistical Profile," Phylon, vol. 42, no. 2, p. 105:
      This latter leadership reflected and reinforced more the "consensual" as opposed to "conflictional" political and social tendencies.
    • 2001, David B. Walker, "New Federalism. III. A Reformed System in the Making?" International Journal of Public Administration, vol 24, no. 1, p. 57:
      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.

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