All contest synonyms
conΒ·test
C c verb contest
- argue β If one person argues with another, they speak angrily to each other about something that they disagree about. You can also say that two people argue.
- oppose β to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- litigate β to make the subject of a lawsuit; contest at law.
- contend β If you have to contend with a problem or difficulty, you have to deal with it or overcome it.
- defend β If you defend someone or something, you take action in order to protect them.
- compete β If you compete in a contest or a game, you take part in it.
- vie β to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
- tangle β to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
- question β a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
noun contest
- trial β German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
- game β an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- sport β an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- meeting β an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races: a track meet.
- challenge β A challenge is something new and difficult which requires great effort and determination.
- match β a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- brawl β A brawl is a rough or violent fight.
- action β Action is doing something for a particular purpose.
- conflict β Conflict is serious disagreement and argument about something important. If two people or groups are in conflict, they have had a serious disagreement or argument and have not yet reached agreement.
- battle β A battle is a violent fight between groups of people, especially one between military forces during a war.
- rivalry β the action, position, or relation of a rival or rivals; competition: rivalry between Yale and Harvard.
- debate β A debate is a discussion about a subject on which people have different views.
- discussion β an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- tournament β a trial of skill in some game, in which competitors play a series of contests: a chess tournament.
- meet β greatest lower bound
- trying β extremely annoying, difficult, or the like; straining one's patience and goodwill to the limit: a trying day; a trying experience.
- testing β the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial.
- run-in β a quarrel; argument.
- discord β lack of concord or harmony between persons or things: marital discord.
- wrangle β to argue or dispute, especially in a noisy or angry manner.
- affray β An affray is a noisy and violent fight, especially in a public place.
- hassle β a disorderly dispute.
- brush β A brush is an object which has a large number of bristles or hairs fixed to it. You use brushes for painting, for cleaning things, and for tidying your hair.
- go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- strife β vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
- row β record
- beef β Beef is the meat of a cow, bull, or ox.
- scrap β a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
- altercation β An altercation is a noisy argument or disagreement.
- dispute β to engage in argument or debate.
- combat β Combat is fighting that takes place in a war.
- rumble β to make a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound, as thunder.
- fray β a raveled or worn part, as in cloth: frays at the toes of well-worn sneakers.
- warfare β the process of military struggle between two nations or groups of nations; war.
- shock β a thick, bushy mass, as of hair.
- controversy β Controversy is a lot of discussion and argument about something, often involving strong feelings of anger or disapproval.
- skirmish β Military. a fight between small bodies of troops, especially advanced or outlying detachments of opposing armies.
- static β pertaining to or characterized by a fixed or stationary condition.
- set-to β a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
- tug-of-war β an athletic contest between two teams at opposite ends of a rope, each team trying to drag the other over a line.
- striving β to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.