balkanized
The word “balkanized” has 3 syllables: bal-ka-nized
It's pronounced as /ˈbɔːlkəˌnaɪzd/
What is synonym and antonym for balkanized?
In the thesaurus, “balkanized” has 7 synonyms and 3 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for balkanized along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for balkanized
Antonyms for balkanized
Meanings of balkanized
- verb
- To break up into small, mutually hostile units, especially on a political basis.
Example Sentences
- The region's political instability has led to a balkanized landscape of warring factions and disputed territories.
- In the aftermath of the conflict, the once-unified country became balkanized, with each ethnic group asserting its own autonomy.
- Attempts to create a cohesive national identity were thwarted by deep-seated divisions, resulting in a balkanized society.
- The internet has the potential to connect people globally, but it also runs the risk of being balkanized by censorship and government control.
- Economic disparities have contributed to a balkanized economy, with regions experiencing vastly different levels of prosperity.
On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to balkanized, such as: cohesionless, disunited, divided, factious, fractionalized, fractionated, split.
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Related Words
factious
- alienated
- balkanized
- belligerent
- cohesionless
- contending
- contentious
- contumacious
- disaffected
- disputatious
- dissident
- disunited
- divided
- divisive
- fighting
- fractionalized
- fractionated
- hostile
- insubordinate
- insurgent
- insurrectionary
- litigious
- malcontent
- mutinous
- partisan
- quarrelsome
- rebellious
- refractory
- rival
- sectarian
- seditious
- split
- troublemaking
- turbulent
split
- administration
- alienate
- antagonize
- apportionment
- at loggerheads
- at odds
- atomization
- balkanized
- bifurcate
- bifurcation
- bisect
- breach
- break
- break down
- break up
- breakup
- check
- chink
- cleavage
- cleave
- cleft
- cohesionless
- crack
- cranny
- craze
- crevasse
- crevice
- cut
- cut off
- decompose
- decomposition
- decouple
- detach
- dichotomization
- dichotomize
- diffusion
- disaffect
- disassemble
- disassembly
- disassociate
- disconnect
- disengage
- disentangle
- disgruntle
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- disjoin
- disjoint
- dismemberment
- dispersal
- dispersion
- dissect
- dissever
- dissociate
- dissolution
- dissolve
- distribution
- disunion
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- disunited
- divide
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- divorce
- embitter
- estrange
- factious
- fissure
- fractionalization
- fractionalize
- fractionalized
- fractionate
- fractionated
- fractionation
- fracture
- fragment
- fragmentate
- fragmentize
- gap
- gash
- hairline
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- incision
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- isolate
- isolation
- opening
- part
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- polarization
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- pull
- quarter
- ramify
- rend
- resolve
- rift
- rip
- rive
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- scattering
- schism
- scission
- seclude
- seclusion
- segment
- segmentation
- segregate
- segregation
- separate
- separation
- sequester
- sequestration
- sever
- severance
- slit
- splinter
- subdivide
- subdivision
- sunder
- sundering
- tear
- trisect
- uncouple
- unlink
- unravel
- untie
- unyoke