dispute
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a disagreement or argument about something important
he had a dispute with his wife
Types & categories
- disagreement hypernym
- collision hyponym
- controversy hyponym
- gap hyponym
- quarrel hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
take exception to
She challenged his claims
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- dispute derivation
- controversy derivation
- challenge derivation
- challengeable derivation
- question entails
Sense 3 noun
coming into conflict with
Types & categories
- resistance hypernym
Related & opposite
- quarrel derivation
- contravene derivation
- combative derivation
Sense 4 verb
have a disagreement over something
We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- contravention derivation
- fighting derivation
- dispute derivation
- controversy derivation
- quarrel derivation
- disputation derivation
- eristic derivation
- fighter derivation
- quarreler derivation
- combative derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | quarrel |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | disagree |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dispute |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | combative |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | disagreement |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | collision |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | controversy |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | gap |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | quarrel |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dispute |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | controversy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | challenge |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | challengeable |
| 2 | entails | Related & opposite | question |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | contest |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | call |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | call |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | quarrel |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | contravene |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | combative |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | resistance |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | contravention |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | fighting |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | dispute |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | controversy |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | quarrel |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | disputation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | eristic |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | fighter |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | quarreler |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | combative |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | contend |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | brawl |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | spat |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | polemize |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | fall out |