Definition of: conflict

(kon′flikt) noun
1. A struggle to resist or overcome; contest of opposing forces or powers; strife; battle.
2. A state or condition of opposition; antagonism; discord: the conflict of testimony.
3. Active antagonism; clash; collision.
4. Psychoanal. Painful tension set up by a clash between opposed and contradictory impulses in an individual; specifically, the antagonism existing between primitive desires and instincts and moral, religious, or ethical ideals.
—v.i. (kən·flikt′)
1. To come into collision; be in mutual opposition; clash.
2. To engage in battle; struggle. [<L conflictus, pp. of confligere <com- together + fligere strike]
—con·flic′tion noun
—con·flic′· tive adjective