0 having to deal with something or someone that you find difficult or threatening:
Some people feel confronted by this because it makes them uncomfortable about what they might be condoning.
Through communications technology we are ever more confronted with the evil and horrors of our world.
That's what he would do in a confronted situation.
It is usually bothersome to be confronted with statements about the supposed universal nature of a particular linguistic phenomenon.
Cotton, wheat, and tobacco farmers confronted an uncertain economic environment and were willing to accept restrictions on production in exchange for high, guaranteed prices.
They confronted the economic troubles of that decade already having enacted national programs to provide health care to all their citizens.
The first volume was published in 1907 and now we are confronted with the eighth.
When employers confronted unions directly, employers, especially industrial employers, generally won.
