| Main Entry: | warlike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hostile, battling |
Synonyms: |
aggressive, attacking, bellicose, belligerent, bloodthirsty, combative, contending, contentious, contrary, fighting, gladiatorial, hawkish, inimical, martial, militant, militaristic, military, offensive, pugnacious, quarrelsome, ructious, soldierly, truculent, unfriendly, warmongering, warring |
Antonyms: |
harmonizing, peaceful |
| Main Entry: | aggressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | belligerent, hostile |
Synonyms: |
advancing, antipathetic, assailing, attacking, barbaric, bellicose, combative, contentious, destructive, disruptive, disturbing, encroaching, hawkish, intruding, intrusive, invading, martial, militant, offensive, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rapacious, threatening, warlike |
Antonyms: |
calm, easy-going, laid-back |
| Main Entry: | belligerent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, argumentative |
Synonyms: |
aggressive, antagonistic, ardent, at loggerheads, battling, bellicose, cantankerous, combative, contentious, fierce, fighting, flip, have a bone to pick, have chip on shoulder, have it in for, hostile, hot, hot-tempered, mean, militant, on the outs, ornery, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike |
| 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: | combative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aggressive |
Synonyms: |
antagonistic, bellicose, belligerent, cantankerous, contentious, cussed, energetic, fire-eating, gladiatorial, hawkish, militant, ornery*, pugnacious, quarrelsome, ructious, scrappy, strenuous, trigger-happy, truculent, warlike, warring |
Antonyms: |
agreeable, compromising, peaceful, peaceloving |
| Main Entry: | hostile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic, mean |
Synonyms: |
adverse, alien, allergic, anti*, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, bitter, catty, chill*, cold*, competitive, contentious, contrary, disapproving, dour, hateful, ill-disposed, inhospitable, inimical, malevolent, malicious, malignant, militant, nasty, opposed, opposite, oppugnant, ornery*, pugnacious, rancorous, scrappy, sour*, spiteful, surly, unfavorable, unfriendly, unkind, unpropitious, unsociable, unsympathetic, unwelcoming, viperous, virulent, vitriolic, warlike |
Antonyms: |
agreeable, friendly, gentle, kind, nice, welcoming |
| Main Entry: | lawless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reckless, ungoverned |
Synonyms: |
anarchic, anarchical, anarchistic, bad, barbarous, chaotic, contumacious, criminal, despotic, disobedient, disordered, disorderly, evil, fierce, heterodox, infringing, insubordinate, insurgent, mutinous, nihilistic, noncompliant, nonconformist, piratical, rebellious, recusant, revolutionary, riotous, savage, seditious, tempestuous, terrorizing, traitorous, turbulent, tyrannous, uncivilized, uncultivated, unorthodox, unpeaceful, unrestrained, unruly, untamed, violent, warlike, wild |
Antonyms: |
governed, lawful, legal, legitimate, licit, proper, rightful, valid |
| Main Entry: | martial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having to do with armed hostilities |
Synonyms: |
aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, combative, hostile, military, pugnacious, soldierly, warlike |
Antonyms: |
civil, peaceful |
| Main Entry: | militant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aggressive, combative |
Synonyms: |
active, assertive, assertory, bellicose, belligerent, combating, contending, contentious, embattled, fighting, gladiatorial, in arms, martial, militaristic, military, offensive, pugnacious, pushy, quarrelsome, scrappy, self-assertive, truculent, up in arms, vigorous, warlike, warring |
Antonyms: |
compliant, peaceful, peaceloving, submissive, tolerant |
| Main Entry: | military |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | soldierlike; concerning the armed forces |
Synonyms: |
aggressive, armed, army, combatant, combative, fighting, martial, militant, militaristic, noncivil, soldierly, warlike, warmongering |
Antonyms: |
civilian |
| Main Entry: | pugnacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | belligerent |
Synonyms: |
aggressive, antagonistic, argumentative, bellicose, brawling, cantankerous, chip on shoulder, choleric, combative, contentious, defiant, disputatious, have a bone to pick, hot-tempered, irascible, irritable, itching to fight, militant, petulant, pushing, pushy*, quarrelsome, ready to fight, rebellious, salty, scrappy, self-assertive, truculent, warlike |
Antonyms: |
easy-going, kind, laid-back, nice |