altercation
Meaning of altercation
- a noisy argument or disagreement, especially in public.
I had an altercation with the ticket collector
late Middle English: from Latin altercatio(n- ), from the verb altercari (see altercate).
Information about altercation
- It is a name.
- The plural form of altercation is: altercations.
- Languages in which altercation is used:
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Hyphenation of altercation
al-ter-ca-tion
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- altercation is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
altercation synonyms
Meaning affray:
Meaning an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one:
Meaning a heated argument or disagreement, typically about a trivial issue and between people who are usually on good term:
Meaning a noisy quarrel about something trivial:
Meaning a violent confrontation or struggle:
Meaning a minor dispute or disagreement:
Meaning lack of consensus or approval:
Meaning disagreement that leads to discord:
Meaning a disagreement or argument:
Meaning debate or argument:
Meaning heated disagreement:
Meaning an incompatibility leading to disagreement:
Meaning a dispute or argument, typically one that is long and complicated:
Meaning a scene of uproar and disorder; a heated argument:
Meaning a petty quarrel, especially one between friends or lovers:
Meaning past and past participle of spit1:
Meaning a small piece or amount of something, especially one that is left over after the greater part has been used:
Meaning a number of people or things in a more or less straight line:
Meaning a quarrel, especially a noisy one:
Meaning a loose scrum formed around a player with the ball on the ground:
Meaning the sweet course following the main course of a meal; pudding:
Meaning a quarrel or brawl:
Meaning the thick reddish or green leaf stalks of a cultivated plant of the dock family, which are eaten as a fruit after cooking:
Meaning cook (meat or fish) by exposure to direct heat:
Meaning a petty quarrel or fit of pique:
Meaning a noisy quarrel:
Translation of altercation
- French: altercation
- Spanish: altercación, altercado
- Portuguese: altercação
- Italian: litigio, alterco, diverbio
Anagrams of altercation
Words that rhyme with altercation
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