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Fighting - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: fighting
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: aggressive, warlike
Synonyms: angry, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, boxing, combative, contentious, determined, disputatious, fencing, ferocious, hostile, martial, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, resolute, truculent, unbeatable, up in arms*, battling, brawling, contending, disputative, hawkish, jingoistic, jousting, militaristic, ready to fight, scrappy, skirmishing, sparring, tilting, under arms, warmongering, wrestling
Antonyms: peaceloving
Main Entry: fighting
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: battle, encounter
Synonyms: argument, battle royal*, beef*, bloodshed, blowup, bout, brush, combat, conflict, contention, dispute, donnybrook*, exchange, flap*, fracas, free-for-all*, go, hassle, hostility, joust, match, melee, mix, riot, roughhouse, row, rowdy, rumble, rumpus, run-in*, scramble, scrap*, scrimmage, scuffle, spat, strife, struggle, tiff, war, warfare, words, wrangle, brannigan, brawling, hell broke loose, punch out, set-to*
Antonyms: peace, surrender, ceasefire
Main Entry: fight
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: engage in physical encounter
Synonyms: assault, attack, battle, bear arms, bicker, box, brawl, buck, challenge, clash, contend, cross swords, dispute, duel, feud, grapple, joust, meet, oppugn, protect, quarrel, repel, resist, rowdy, scrap, scuffle, skirmish, spar, strive, struggle, tiff*, tilt*, traverse, tug, tussle, war, withstand, wrangle, wrestle, altercate, bandy with, brush with, carry on war, do battle, exchange blows, flare up, go to war, mix it up, ply weapons, take all comers, take the field, take up the gauntlet, wage war
Antonyms: agree, surrender, yield, make peace
Main Entry: fight
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: oppose action, belief
Synonyms: argue, bicker, buck*, buckle down*, carry on, combat, conduct, contest, continue, defy, dispute, effect, endure, fall out, force, further, hassle, lay into*, maintain, oppose, persevere, persist, prosecute, repel, resist, row, squabble, strive, struggle, support, take on, travail, traverse, uphold, wage, withstand, wrangle, engage in, exert oneself, hammer away, light into*, make a stand against, push forward, put up an argument, spare no effort, stand up to, take pains, tangle with, toil on
Antonyms: agree, believe, support, uphold
Main Entry: belligerent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nasty, argumentative
Synonyms: aggressive, antagonistic, ardent, bellicose, cantankerous, combative, contentious, fierce, fighting, flip, hostile, hot, hot-tempered, mean, militant, ornery, pugnacious, quarrelsome, truculent, warlike, at loggerheads, battling, have a bone to pick, have chip on shoulder, have it in for, on the outs, scrappy
Notes: bellicose orients 'prone to fighting' toward an individual while belligerent refers to an organized body, a national or political entity - a person is bellicose, a nation is belligerent
Antonyms: cooperative, helping, kind, nice
Main Entry: militant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: aggressive, combative
Synonyms: active, assertive, bellicose, belligerent, contentious, embattled, fighting, martial, military, offensive, pugnacious, pushy, quarrelsome, self-assertive, truculent, up in arms, vigorous, warlike, warring, assertory, combating, contending, gladiatorial, in arms, militaristic, scrappy
Antonyms: compliant, peaceful, submissive, tolerant, peaceloving
Main Entry: military
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: soldierlike; concerning the armed forces
Synonyms: aggressive, armed, army, combatant, combative, fighting, martial, militant, warlike, militaristic, noncivil, soldierly, warmongering
Antonyms: civilian
Main Entry: strife
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: struggle, battle
Synonyms: affray, altercation, animosity, argument, blowup, brawl, clash, combat, competition, conflict, contention, contest, controversy, difference, disagreement, discord, dispute, dissension, dissent, dissidence, faction, fighting, friction, fuss, hassle, quarrel, rivalry, spat, squabble, static, striving, tug of war*, variance, warfare, words, wrangle, bickering, disunity, emulation, factionalism, squabbling, wrangling
Antonyms: success, victory
Main Entry: violence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: extreme force, intensity
Synonyms: abandon, acuteness, assault, attack, bloodshed, blowup, brutality, clash, coercion, compulsion, confusion, constraint, cruelty, disorder, disturbance, duress, ferocity, fervor, fighting, flap, foul play, frenzy, fury, fuss, harshness, onslaught, passion, power, raging, rampage, roughness, ruckus, rumble, severity, storm, struggle, tumult, turbulence, uproar, vehemence, bestiality, brute force, destructiveness, fierceness, murderousness, savagery, sharpness, storminess, terrorism, wildness
Antonyms: peace, passivity, peacefulness
Main Entry: war
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: armed conflict
Synonyms: battle, bloodshed, cold war, combat, conflict, contention, contest, enmity, fighting, hostility, police action, strife, strike, struggle, warfare, hostilities
Antonyms: peace, ceasefire
Main Entry: warfare
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: armed conflict
Synonyms: arms, battle, clash, combat, competition, contest, discord, fighting, rivalry, strategy, strife, striving, struggle, war, armed struggle, blows, campaigning, counterinsurgency, emulation, hostilities, military operation, passage of arms, tug-of-war
Antonyms: harmony, peace
Main Entry: warlike
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hostile, battling
Synonyms: aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, bloodthirsty, combative, contentious, contrary, fighting, inimical, martial, militant, military, offensive, pugnacious, quarrelsome, truculent, unfriendly, warring, attacking, contending, gladiatorial, hawkish, militaristic, ructious, soldierly, warmongering
Antonyms: peaceful, harmonizing
Main Entry: bloodshed
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: slaughter
Synonyms: bloodbath, carnage, fighting, gore, killing, massacre, murder, onslaught, annihilation, bloodletting, butchery, extermination
Antonyms: peace
Main Entry: quarreling
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disagreeing
Synonyms: conflicting, discordant, fighting, inharmonious, at odds, bickering, differing, in disagreement, squabbling
Main Entry: warring
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: at war
Synonyms: belligerent, combative, fighting, battling
Main Entry: battle
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: military fight
Synonyms: action, assault, attack, barrage, bloodshed, bombing, brush, campaign, carnage, clash, combat, conflict, contention, crusade, encounter, engagement, fighting, fray, havoc, hostility, onset, onslaught, press, ravage, scrimmage, skirmish, sortie, strife, struggle, war, warfare, blitzkreig, significant contact
Antonyms: truce
Main Entry: service
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: time in military operation
Synonyms: action, active duty, combat, duty, fighting, sting
Main Entry: action
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: an aggressive military deed
Synonyms: battle, combat, conflict, contest, encounter, engagement, fight, fighting, fray, skirmish, warfare
Main Entry: bicker
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: nastily argue
Synonyms: brawl, caterwaul, cavil, dig, disagree, dispute, fall out, fight, hassle, quarrel, quibble, row, scrap, scrape, spar, spat, squabble, tiff, wrangle, altercate, cause a scene, pick at, trade zingers
Antonyms: agree, concede, discuss
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