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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | factious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conflicting, warring |
| Synonyms: | alienated, belligerent, contentious, contumacious, disaffected, disputatious, dissident, divisive, fighting, hostile, insubordinate, insurgent, litigious, malcontent, mutinous, partisan, quarrelsome, rebellious, refractory, rival, sectarian, seditious, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, contending, estranged, insurrectionary, troublemaking |
| Antonyms: | agreeing, cooperating, cooperative, peaceful, united |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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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