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Disputant vs Enemy - What's the difference?

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Disputant is a related term of enemy.


As nouns the difference between disputant and enemy

is that disputant is a participant in a dispute while enemy is someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.

As adjectives the difference between disputant and enemy

is that disputant is disputing; engaged in controversy while enemy is of, relating to, or belonging to an enemy.

disputant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A participant in a dispute.
  • * 1893, , Collaboration [http://www.henryjames.org.uk/collab/CLtext.htm]
  • One of the liveliest scenes of the performance was the evening, last winter, on which I became aware that one of my compatriots – an American, my good friend Alfred Bonus – was engaged in a controversy somewhat acrimonious, on a literary subject, with Herman Heidenmauer, the young composer who had been playing to us divinely a short time before and whom I thought of neither as a disputant nor as an Englishman.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Disputing; engaged in controversy.
  • (Milton)
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    enemy

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia enemy) (enemies)
  • Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
  • He made a lot of enemies after reducing the working hours in his department.
    Crush the enemy !
  • A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.
  • rally together against a common enemy .
  • An alliance of such forces.
  • Something harmful or threatening to another
  • * '>citation
  • The very thing the 16 skiers and snowboarders had sought — fresh, soft snow — instantly became the enemy . Somewhere above, a pristine meadow cracked in the shape of a lightning bolt, slicing a slab nearly 200 feet across and 3 feet deep. Gravity did the rest.

    Synonyms

    * foe * unfriend * adversary * nemesis * backfriend

    Antonyms

    * ally * friend

    Derived terms

    {{der3, archenemy , enemydom , enemyful , enemyhood , enemyish , enemyless , enemylike , enemyness , enemyship , enemywise}}

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, relating to, or belonging to an enemy
  • See also

    * nemesis

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