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See definition of cross-purpose on Dictionary.com
  • as inMexican standoff
  • as indisagreement

synonyms for cross-purpose

  • collision
  • cross-purposes
  • dead heat
  • deadlock
  • even money
  • showdown
  • standoff
  • wash
  • animosity
  • antagonism
  • argument
  • bickering
  • clash
  • conflict
  • controversy
  • debate
  • difference
  • discord
  • dissent
  • disunity
  • division
  • feud
  • fight
  • friction
  • hostility
  • misunderstanding
  • opposition
  • spat
  • split
  • squabble
  • strife
  • tension
  • wrangle
  • altercation
  • atmospherics
  • breach
  • break
  • contention
  • contest
  • cross-purposes
  • dissidence
  • disunion
  • hassle
  • rupture
  • variance
  • vendetta
  • words
  • clashing
  • divisiveness
  • falling out
  • ill feeling
  • ill will
  • jarring
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On this page you'll find 66 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cross-purpose, such as: collision, cross purposes, dead heat, deadlock, even money, and showdown.
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How to use cross-purpose in a sentence

It seems someway unlike God to make each person a something all of cross-purpose.
I, MARY MACLANEMARY MACLANE
I am not prone on my green couch, frayed, frazzled, bowed-down in spirit from a day of frightful stress and cross-purpose.
I, MARY MACLANEMARY MACLANE
I do not excuse Sunna, but I say that wherever there is a cross purpose, there has likely never been a straight one.
AN ORKNEY MAIDAMELIA EDITH HUDDLESTON BARR
If we find every fact of life at cross-purpose with Scripture, what then?
THE CALL OF THE TOWNJOHN ALEXANDER HAMMERTON
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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