Synonyms for feud
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English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. feud

   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, dispute, dissension, enmity, fray, hostility, quarrel, strife

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 4 votes

1. feud

   Synonyms:
   fray, affray, broil, contention, enmity, antipathy, animosity, quarrel, strife, bitterness, dissension, hostility

   Antonyms:
   friendliness, sympathy, congeniality, clanship, pacification, reconciliation, sociality, neighborliness

Princeton's WordNet

1. feudverb

   a bitter quarrel between two parties

2. feudverb

   carry out a feud

   "The two professors have been feuding for years"

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. feudnoun

   Synonyms:
   quarrel (especially between families or clans), broil, contention, clashing, dissension, jarring, rupture, bickering, falling out

2. feudnoun

   Synonyms:
   fee, fief

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1. List of paraphrases for "feud":

   enmity, quarrel, hostility, vendetta, feuding

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How to use feud in a sentence?

1. Daily Kos:

   If four votes are so inconsequential, why even bring them up ? , we have a serious problem with turnout among young voters and voters of color. So why would you take people who are probably the best tools for getting those voters out to the polls next year, why would you start a feud with them ? It makes no sense.

2. Cat Rescue:

   They totally lied to us about what their end product was going to be, the whole premise behind [the show] was that it was a feud. For a feud, you have to have two people that are feuding. I've never had a conversation with Joe. I've never even spoken to him.

3. Seth Rogen:

   If someone's trying to murder someone with a baseball bat and someone's yelling at that person to stop, is that a feud between the baseball bat wielder and the person yelling at the baseball bat wilder? Feud implies two people hitting each other with baseball bats. Ted Cruz is a fascist. He denies the reality of the election. His words caused people to die and I'm making jokes about it. Is that a feud? I don't know. To me, it doesn't seem like a feud. To me, it seems I'm pointing out the fact that he's a terrible man whose words have resulted in death.

4. Ronn Torossian:

   The brand which will suffer the most from Steve Harvey’s gaffe at the Miss Universe contest is Steve Harvey, what a terrible mistake. Viewers seemed to agree. They took to Twitter to poke fun at the Family Feud host's mix up. — Olivia Jansen( @OliviaJansen95) December 21, 2015 — Lauren Vizza( @laurenmvizza) December 21, 2015 — Greg Johnson( @TornadoGreg) December 21, 2015 However, Alec Shankman, head of alternative programming digital media at Abrams Artists Agency, believe there will be no long-term impact on Harvey's career.

5. Ryan Seacrest:

   They told me I had till Monday to decide, 'Family Feud' was the bigger opportunity. But for some reason -- I'm still not entirely sure why -- I ended up choosing 'American Idol.'.