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Synonyms for confront
kənˈfrʌntcon·front
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
confront
To abide is to remain continuously without limit of time unless expressed by the context: "to-day I must abide at thy house," Luke xix, 5; "a settled place for thee to abide in forever," 1 Kings viii, 13; "Abide with me! fast falls the eventide,"
Lyte Hymn. Lodge, sojourn, stay, tarry, and wait always imply a limited time; lodge, to pass the night; sojourn, to remain temporarily; live, dwell, reside, to have a permanent home. Stop, in the sense of stay or sojourn, is colloquial, and not in approved use. Compare ENDURE; REST.Synonyms:
abide, anticipate, await, bear, bide, continue, dwell, endure, expect, inhabit, live, lodge, remain, reside, rest, sojourn, stay, stop, tarry, tolerate, wait, watchAntonyms:
abandon, avoid, depart, forfeit, forfend, journey, migrate, move, proceed, reject, resist, shunPreposition:
Abide in a place, for a time, with a person, by a statement.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
confront
Synonyms:
oppose, face, encounter, resist, intimidate, menaceAntonyms:
rally, encourage, abet, countenance
Princeton's WordNet
confront, faceverb
oppose, as in hostility or a competition
"You must confront your opponent"; "Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring"; "The two enemies finally confronted each other"
Synonyms:
present, face, front, look, face upAntonyms:
avoidconfront, face up, faceverb
deal with (something unpleasant) head on
"You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes"
Synonyms:
present, face, front, look, face upAntonyms:
avoidconfront, face, presentverb
present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize
"We confronted him with the evidence"; "He was faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his actions"; "An enormous dilemma faces us"
Synonyms:
portray, demonstrate, demo, deliver, acquaint, represent, pose, give, lay out, front, look, face up, award, introduce, present, exhibit, face, stage, salute, gift, show, submitAntonyms:
avoidconfrontverb
be face to face with
"The child screamed when he confronted the man in the Halloween costume"
Synonyms:
present, face, face upAntonyms:
avoid
Dictionary of English Synonymes
confrontverb
Synonyms:
encounter, face, bring face to face, oppose openlyconfrontverb
Synonyms:
compare, bring into comparison
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#249 | address | |
#268 | show | |
#446 | look | |
#461 | live | |
#555 | give | |
#591 | gift | |
#794 | front | |
#805 | present | |
#859 | meet | |
#868 | submit | |
#871 | watch | |
#973 | face | |
#1001 | stay | |
#1038 | stop | |
#1056 | continue | |
#1367 | award | |
#1547 | rest | |
#1572 | stage | |
#2071 | wait | |
#2277 | counter | |
#2323 | expect | |
#2490 | bear | |
#2590 | remain | |
#2976 | represent | |
#3338 | deliver | |
#3496 | lodge | |
#3520 | demo | |
#4403 | exhibit | |
#4575 | combat | |
#4615 | demonstrate | |
#4968 | facing | |
#5050 | introduce | |
#7693 | encounter | |
#8506 | tackle | |
#9747 | pose | |
#9848 | cope | |
#9957 | resist | |
#12106 | abide | |
#12242 | oppose | |
#14126 | anticipate | |
#14382 | reside | |
#17250 | confront | |
#17449 | dwell | |
#17899 | endure | |
#17963 | tolerate | |
#18518 | salute | |
#19022 | await | |
#19164 | menace | |
#24770 | portray | |
#30748 | inhabit | |
#37463 | intimidate | |
#41596 | sojourn | |
#47239 | acquaint | |
#59875 | tarry | |
#68400 | bide |
How to use confront in a sentence?
She's been pandering to pro-criminal allies and she's been on the wrong side of these issues one after the other, kathy Hochul can't confront this head-on because she hasn't actually been doing anything about it.
The president has said we see China as the adversary it is. We are prepared to compete with the Chinese, and we are [prepared], when necessary, to confront the Chinese. And that’s what we’re doing. And that’s what we will continue to do to ensure that our national interests are always at the forefront.
There's going to be all sorts of disasters that take place -- natural disasters, attacks on the homeland -- it's a certainty in an uncertain world that this president and the next president is going to have to confront all sorts of challenges where his leadership or her leadership is going to matter.
The bottom line is this: we want to co-operate where we can, but we just have to be ready as a military to confront them if we must.
The 'Great' in Great Britain was predicated on slavery and colonialism. And its legacy we still live with today, the structures that lock people out - that's not wallowing in victimhood, that's an honest conversation. And we need to confront that.
Translations for confront
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- konfronteerAfrikaans
- مواجهةArabic
- изправям се пред, съпоставям, имам работа с, противостоя, стоя срещуBulgarian
- konfrontovatCzech
- konfrontereDanish
- gegenübertreten, Sache, begegnen, entgegentreten, konfrontieren, stellen, gegenüberstellenGerman
- αντιμετωπίGreek
- enfrentar, confrontarSpanish
- روبرو شدن باPersian
- kohdataFinnish
- affronter, confronterFrench
- התעמתHebrew
- सामना करनाHindi
- szembeszállHungarian
- menghadapiIndonesian
- affrontare, confrontareItalian
- לְהִתְעַמֵתHebrew
- 対峙するJapanese
- 대치하다Korean
- adversusLatin
- confronteren, tegenover stellen, vergelijkenDutch
- konfrontereNorwegian
- konfrontowaćPolish
- confrontar, enfrentarPortuguese
- confruntaRomanian
- противостоять, сопоставля́ть, ста́лкиваться, противопоста́вить, столкну́ться, противопоставля́ть, противостоя́ть, сопоста́вить, [[име́ть]] [[де́ло]] (с)Russian
- ballafaqoj, përballojAlbanian
- konfronteraSwedish
- எதிர்கொள்ளTamil
- అదుపుచేయలేనిTelugu
- เผชิญหน้าThai
- karşılaştırmak, karşısına çıkmak, yüzleştirmek, karşı koymakTurkish
- протистоятиUkrainian
- مقابلہUrdu
- Đối đầuVietnamese
- קאָנפראָנטYiddish
- 面对Chinese
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