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noun
- 1. a noisy argument or disagreement, especially in public: "I had an altercation with the ticket collector"
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a loud argument or disagreement: According to witnesses, the altercation between the two men started inside the restaurant. Synonyms. affray specialized. fracas. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Arguments & disagreements. argy-bargy. be (on) non-speakers idiom. belligerence. bickering. bust up phrasal verb. clash. contentiousness.
The meaning of ALTERCATION is a noisy, heated, angry dispute; also : noisy controversy. How to use altercation in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Altercation.
noun. a heated or angry dispute; noisy argument or controversy. SYNONYMS quarrel, disagreement, clash; squabble, tiff. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Modified entries © 2019 by Penguin Random House LLC and HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Word origin. [1350–1400; ME altercacioun ‹ L altercātiōn- (s. of altercātiō).
a loud argument or disagreement: According to witnesses, the altercation between the two men started inside the restaurant. Synonyms. affray specialized. fracas. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Arguments & disagreements. argy-bargy. be (on) non-speakers idiom. belligerence. bickering. bust up phrasal verb. clash. contentiousness.
Someone who gets a black eye fighting for a parking spot might — after cooling down — describe the incident as an altercation rather than as a knock-down, drag-out brawl.
Altercation definition: a heated or angry dispute; noisy argument or controversy.. See examples of ALTERCATION used in a sentence.
altercation. noun. A discussion, often heated, in which a difference of opinion is expressed: argument, bicker, clash, contention, controversy, debate, difficulty, disagreement, dispute, fight, polemic, quarrel, run-in, spat, squabble, tiff, word (used in plural), wrangle. Informal: hassle, rhubarb, tangle.
Definition of altercation noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
An angry or heated argument. Webster's New World. Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. Wiktionary. Synonyms: spat. controversy. fight. dispute. squabble. strife. scrap. rift. melee. brawl. row. wrangle. tiff. run-in. quarrel. Antonyms: unity.
altercation meaning, definition, what is altercation: a short noisy argument: Learn more.
