English-Thai Dictionary

strife

N การแข่งขัน กัน  การต่อสู้ กัน  การขัดแย้ง กัน  conflict competition rivalry struggle peace kan-kang-kan-kan

 

strife

N ความบากบั่น (คำ โบรา ณ  ความพยายาม อย่างเต็มที่  striving strong endeavor kwam-bak-ban

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STRIFE

n.[See Strive. ] 1. Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. Strife may be carried on between students or between mechanics.
Thus Gods contended, noble strife, who most should ease the wants of life.
2. Contention in anger or enmity; contest; struggle for victory; quarrel or war.
I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon. Judges 12:2.
These vows thus granted, raisd a strife above betwixt the god of war and queen of love.
3. Opposition; contrariety; contrast.
Artificial strife lives in these touches livelier than life.
4. The agitation produced by different qualities; as the strife of acid and alkali. [Little used. ]

 

STRIFEFUL

a.Contentious; discordant. The ape was strifeful and ambitious and the fox guileful and most covetous.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

STRIFE

Strife, n. Etym: [OF. estrif. See Strive. ]

 

1. The act of striving; earnest endeavor. [Archaic ] Shak.

 

2. Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. Doting about questions and strifes of words. 1 Tim. vi. 4. Thus gods contended -- noble strife -Who most should ease the wants of life. Congreve.

 

3. Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle. Twenty of them fought in this black strife. Shak. These vows, thus granted, raised a strife above Betwixt the god of war and queen of love. Dryden.

 

4. That which is contended against; occasion of contest. [Obs. ] "Lamenting her unlucky strife. " Spenser.

 

Syn. -- Contest; struggle; quarrel. See Contention.

 

STRIFEFUL

STRIFEFUL Strife "ful, a.

 

Defn: Contentious; discordant. The ape was strifeful and ambitious. Spenser.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

strife

strife |strīf straɪf | ▶noun angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues; conflict: strife within the community | ethnic and civil strife. ORIGIN Middle English: shortening of Old French estrif (related to Old French estriver ‘strive ’).

 

Oxford Dictionary

strife

strife |strʌɪf | ▶noun [ mass noun ] angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues; conflict: strife within the community | decades of civil strife. • Austral. /NZ trouble or difficulty of any kind. ORIGIN Middle English: shortening of Old French estrif (related to Old French estriver ‘strive ’).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

strife

strife noun these countries have been immersed in political strife for more than a hundred years: conflict, friction, discord, disagreement, dissension, dispute, argument, quarreling, wrangling, bickering, controversy; ill /bad feeling, falling-out, bad blood, hostility, animosity. ANTONYMS peace.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

strife

strife noun the history of the Empire is full of strife: conflict, friction, discord, disagreement, dissension, variance, dispute, argument, quarrelling, wrangling, bickering, controversy, contention; disharmony, ill feeling, bad feeling, bad blood, hostility, animosity; informal falling-out. ANTONYMS harmony, peace, cooperation.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

strife

strife /straɪf /〖striveと同源 〗名詞 U ｟かたく ｠1 争い , 闘争 , 衝突 , 紛争 (conflict ); 不和 , 反目 , けんか ▸ be at strife with the country その国と衝突している ▸ family strife 家庭内のもめごと ▸ political [civil ] strife 政治闘争 [内乱 ]2 ｟豪 ニュージー ｠もめごと , 困難 (trouble )▸ Now I'm in strife .さあ困ったことになった