Thesaurus / cross-purpose
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synonyms for cross-purpose
- 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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.
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 MACLANEI 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 MACLANEI 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 BARRIf we find every fact of life at cross-purpose with Scripture, what then?
THE CALL OF THE TOWNJOHN ALEXANDER HAMMERTON