Noun
1. an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals);
"the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine"police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"2. opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings;
"he was immobilized by conflict and indecision"3. a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war;
"Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga""he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"4. a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests;
"his conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post""a conflict of loyalties"5. an incompatibility of dates or events;
"he noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings"6. opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot);
"this form of conflict is essential to Mann's writing"7. 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"