Conflicting vs Separated - What's the difference?
conflicting | separated | Related terms |
Striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.
Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.
* 1999 , Herre van Oostendorp, Susan R. Goldman, The construction of mental representations during reading
*:On the other hand, the more effective the current activation vector is in reactivating the conflicting information, the more likely the two conflicting pieces of information are to be coactivated.
* 1841 , Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop Chapter 73
*:Of Sally Brass, conflicting rumours went abroad. Some said with confidence that she had gone down to the docks in male attire, and had become a female sailor; others darkly whispered that she had enlisted as a private in the second regiment of Foot Guards, and had been seen in uniform, and on duty, to wit, leaning on her musket and looking out of a sentry-box in St james's Park, one evening.
detached; not connected or joined; two or more things stand apart.
(of spouses) estranged; living apart but not divorced.
(separate)
As adjectives the difference between conflicting and separated
is that conflicting is striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome while separated is detached; not connected or joined; two or more things stand apart.As verbs the difference between conflicting and separated
is that conflicting is present participle of lang=en while separated is past tense of separate.conflicting
English
(Webster 1828)Adjective
(en adjective)- In the absence of all conflicting evidence.