- angry or violent struggle; conflict
- rivalry or contention, esp of a bitter kind
- Austral NZ trouble or discord of any kind
- archaic striving
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
strife
(strīf ),USA pronunciation n.
strife′ful, adj.
strife′less, adj.
- vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism:to be at strife.
- a quarrel, struggle, or clash:armed strife.
- competition or rivalry:the strife of the marketplace.
- [Archaic.]strenuous effort.
- Old French estrif, akin to estriver to strive
- Middle English strif 1175–1225
strife′less, adj.
- 1. difference, disagreement, contrariety, opposition. 2. fight, conflict.
- 1. 2. peace.
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strife /straɪf/ n
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- loosestrife
- outbreak
- peace
- stripe
- toil
- Toulouse
- Turkmenistan
- warfare
- antagonism
- concertation
- conflict
- contention
- contentious
- contest
- controversy
- debate
- dissension
- distract
- embroil
- eternal
- firebrand
- flite
- garden loosestrife
- intestine
- jihad
- loosestrife family
- mellow
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- peaceful
- purple loosestrife
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- war
- whorled loosestrife
- wild
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