Dominated or plagued by conflict.

(literary theory) A psychological conflict that is internal to a character. / (by extension) Mental struggle arising from competing feelings, desires, impulses, etc.

(literary theory) A conflict that is between a character and an external force, such as another character.

(sociology) a conflict among the roles corresponding to two or more statuses.

(education, psychology) A Piagetian form of cognitive training in which a person who does not yet understand a concept and others who do understand it are encouraged to discuss it as a group and formulate a consensus.

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of passive-aggressive personality disorder

Not involving any serious disagreement or argument. / (relating to minerals and precious gems) Not being sold to finance fighting in areas of conflict.

A historiographical approach in the history of science, maintaining that there is an intrinsic intellectual conflict between religion and science and that it inevitably leads to hostility.

(transitive, law) To eliminate (a legal representative) due to a conflict of interest.

A disagreement that focuses on individual- or personally-oriented issues.