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What is the adjective for confrontation?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb confront which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

confrontational
  1. Pertaining to a confrontation; characterized by, or given to initiating hostile encounter; in-your-face.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. aggressive, bellicose, combative, hostile, adversarial, antagonistic, gladiatorial, scrappy, truculent, warlike, agonistic, feisty, provocative, pugnacious, assaultive, belligerent, brawly, chippy, discordant, militant, argumentative, cantankerous, challenging, contentious, disputatious, quarrelsome, uncooperative, adverse, disruptive, on the warpath, threatening, stroppy, captious, irascible, fierce, defiant, contrary, litigious, hot-tempered, violent, oppugnant, warring, fiery, offensive, ill-tempered, ornery, fighting, mean, bad-tempered, unfriendly … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Her unique confrontational style won her the most devoted adherents and the most rabid enemies.”
      “Such a confrontational argument does not gain much support among the Americans.”
      “Faced with the French media on the eve of yesterday's opening time trial, Armstrong was more confrontational.”
confrontable
  1. Able to be confronted; approachable.
confronting
  1. Causing distress; upsetting.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. distressful, disquieting, distressing, upsetting, disturbing, perturbing, uncomfortable, worrisome, worrying, challenging, intimidating, tense, troublesome, unsettling, difficult, discomforting, troubling, painful, discomposing, agitating, nasty, unnerving, troublous, nagging, traumatic, harrowing, depressing, gloomy, unpleasant, disagreeable, shocking, discouraging, disappointing, disconcerting, hurtful, uneasy, frightening, wearisome, annoying, grievous, alarming, disruptive, bitter, irritating, hard, fraught, vexatious, stressful, afflictive, dolorous … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Arnold was delivered the confronting news by a kindergarten child that he was potentially suffering from a tumor.”
confrontative
  1. confrontational
confronted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of confront
  2. Synonyms:
      3. took, endured, tolerated, beared, suffered, withstood, braved, faced, stood, underwent, weathered, assumed, encountered, experienced, shouldered, swallowed, put up with, stomached, supported, sustained, abided, abode, accepted, admitted, allowed, beared the brunt of, bore with, brooked, came to grips with, came up against, carried, coped with, countenanced, grinned and bear, lived through, lived with, met with, permitted, resigned oneself to, rode out, sat through, subjected oneself to, submitted oneself to, submitted to, tholed, took on, toughed out, went through, bided, bode … more
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