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Question 1 If someone's relations with any of their relatives (say father), are not good, what adjectives would be appropriate in the following cases:

  1. They don't fight or have frequent quarrels yet do not interact too much with each other(but not because they dislike each other)

  2. They have frequent fights, both of them dislike each other and so do not interact with each other.

  3. For some reasons they have a great enmity with each other?

Question 2 What do we say to mean that someone's relations with their relatives are getting bad or worsening? Can we simply say that their relations are worsening or are getting worse.

Best Answer

  • Strained

    William Beckett wrote a song about a strained relationship with her father.

  • Tepid

  • Lukewarm

  • Soured

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