combative

Speech parts

1. combative - Adjective

2. combative - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

contentious litigious agonistic agonistical bellicose disputatious disputative battleful bulldog feist military dialectical warlike hotspur fighting
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Antonyms

allied content mild friendly peaceful seasonal
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Phrases with the word

combative reaction combative skill adopt a combative position combative rank combative skills combative behavior

Examples

I believe that the crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilisation to-day is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and they inflame and fix its barbarism. H. G. Wells

I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style. Ian Jackson

There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. Henry Ward Beecher

In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we'd introduced on 'Night Beat.' But that proved easier said than done. Mike Wallace

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts, and all Roosevelt's friends know that his restless and combative energy was more than abnormal. Henry Adams

a dialectical and agonistic approach Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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