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warlike
[wawr-lahyk] 
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warlike
[wawr-lahyk]
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| 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: | 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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