Usually means: Facing and addressing challenges directly.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. confronting: Merriam-Webster
  2. confronting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. confronting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Confronting, confronting: Wordnik
  5. confronting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. confronting: Wiktionary
  7. Confronting, confronting: Dictionary.com
  8. confronting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Confronting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. confronting: Rhymezone
  11. Confronting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. confronting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. confronting: FreeDictionary.org
  14. confronting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. confronting: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. confronting: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Causing distress; upsetting.

Similar:
braving, grappling, tackling, coping with, harrowing, affrontive, confrontational, fraught, tormenting, conflictive, more...

Opposite:
avoiding, sidestepping, shirking

Types:
bold, daring, intrepid, audacious, courageous, fearless, valiant, dauntless, more...

Phrases:
Confronting a Serial Killer, boldly confronting, confronting us, confronting issues, not confronting, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, worth, first, interior, comfortable, direct, accidental, calm, bold, antarctic

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Similar:
braving, grappling, tackling, coping with, harrowing, affrontive, confrontational, fraught, tormenting, conflictive, more...

Opposite:
avoiding, sidestepping, shirking

Types:
bold, daring, intrepid, audacious, courageous, fearless, valiant, dauntless, more...

Phrases:
Confronting a Serial Killer, boldly confronting, confronting us, confronting issues, not confronting, confronting bad decisions, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, worth, first, interior, comfortable, direct, accidental, calm, bold, antarctic

Colors:
    red,     black,     dark gray,     crimson,     maroon, more...



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