Synonyms for dispute
dɪˈspyutdis·pute

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1. dispute

   A feud is enmity between families, clans, or parties, with acts of hostility mutually retaliated and avenged; feud is rarely used of individuals, never of nations. While all the other words of the group may refer to that which is transient, a feud is long-enduring, and often hereditary. Dissension is used of a number of persons, of a party or other organization. Bitterness is in feeling only; enmity and hostility involve will and purpose to oppose or injure. A quarrel is in word or act, or both, and is commonly slight and transient, as we speak of childish quarrels; contention and strife may be in word or deed; contest ordinarily involves some form of action. Contest is often used in a good sense, contention and strife very rarely so. Controversy is commonly in words; strife extends from verbal controversy to the contests of armies. Affray, brawl, and broil, like quarrel, are words of inferior dignity. An affray or broil may arise at a street corner; the affray always involves physical force; the brawl or broil may be confined to violent language.

   Synonyms:
   affray, animosity, bitterness, brawl, broil, contention, contest, controversy, dissension, enmity, feud, fray, hostility, quarrel, strife

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1. dispute

   Synonyms:
   argue, question, canvass, contest, contend, challenge, debate, controvert, controversy, difference, gainsay, impugn, quarrel, altercation

   Antonyms:
   waive, concede, allow, forego

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1. dispute, difference, difference of opinion, conflictnoun

   a disagreement or argument about something important

   "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"

   Synonyms:
   divergence, struggle, battle, difference of opinion, conflict, fight, remainder, contravention, deviation, departure, engagement, difference

2. dispute, contraventionverb

   coming into conflict with

   Synonyms:
   difference of opinion, conflict, difference, contravention

3. challenge, dispute, gainsayverb

   take exception to

   "She challenged his claims"

   Synonyms:
   altercate, take exception, gainsay, challenge, quarrel, scrap, argufy

4. quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercateverb

   have a disagreement over something

   "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"

   Synonyms:
   altercate, junk, gainsay, challenge, trash, quarrel, scrap, argufy

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1. disputeverb

   Synonyms:
   debate, argue, contend in argument

2. disputeverb

   Synonyms:
   bicker, wrangle, quarrel, BRAWL, spar, spat, jangle, squabble, TIFF, fall out, have words, have an altercation

3. disputeverb

   Synonyms:
   debate, discuss, agitate, ventilate, argue, reason about

4. disputeverb

   Synonyms:
   controvert, impugn, call in question, oppose by argument

5. disputenoun

   Synonyms:
   debate, disputation, discussion, controversy, altercation, verbal contest, verbal quarrel, war of words

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1. disputenoun

   Synonyms:
   disputation, controversy, argument, debate, logomachy, squabble, contention, polemic

2. disputeverb

   Synonyms:
   contend, argue, gainsay, controvert, altercate, wrangle, impugn, bicker, squabble, spar

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1. List of paraphrases for "dispute":

   disputes, conflict, controversy, litigation, disagreement, quarrel, conflicts, argument, disputed, differences, difference, contention, strife, disputing, contentieux, wrangling

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How to use dispute in a sentence?

1. Linda Coberly:

   We’re disappointed in the court’s ruling. But we note that the ruling does not resolve the issue of the time limit. It simply notes that the dispute about the time limit stands in the way of finding a ‘clear and indisputable right,’ as would be necessary for the specific relief sought in the lawsuit.

2. Jon Shane:

   The first is that you are entering into someone's private domain and you're bringing a very public face to a very private matter, people's emotions are already elevated due to whatever dispute they're involved in and now you bring the coercive power of the state, people are angry and angry to see you, knowing that there's potential to be arrested and incarcerated.

3. North Sumatra:

   This was just a (dispute between) individuals.

4. Cardinal John Newman:

   Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.

5. Ted Ruthizer:

   When an issue is mostly political, the judicial branch generally is not going to want to step in the middle of a dispute between the executive branch and the legislature.