Meaning of BELLIGERENT
| Pronunciation: | | bu'lijurunt
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- [n] someone who fights (or is fighting)
- [adj] characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight; "aggressive acts against another country"; "a belligerent tone"
- [adj] engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations"; "a fighting war"
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| | Synonyms: | | aggressive, battler, combatant, fighter, fighting, hostile, militant, scrapper, unpeaceful, war-ridden, warring |
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| | See Also: | | boxer, brawler, butter, defender, fencer, gamecock, gladiator, gouger, grappler, hell-kite, hell-rooster, human, individual, master, matman, mauler, mortal, person, pugilist, skirmisher, slasher, somebody, someone, soul, street fighter, superior, swordsman, tough, victor, withstander, wrestler | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Bel*lig"er*ent\, a. [L. bellum war + gerens,
-entis, waging, p. pr. of gerere to wage: cf. F.
bellig['e]rant. See {Bellicose}, {Jest}.]
1. Waging war; carrying on war. ``Belligerent powers.'' --E.
Everett.
2. Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to
belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.
\Bel*lig"er*ent\, n.
A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person
engaged in warfare.
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| | Related Terms: | | acrid, aggressive, antagonist, antagonistic, antipathetic, ardent, argumental, argumentative, attacking, battler, battling, bellicose, belted knight, bickerer, bickering, bitter, blade, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, cat-and-dog, cat-and-doggish, caustic, chauvinist, chauvinistic, clashing, colliding, combatant, combative, competitor, conflicting, contender, contentious, contestant, controversial, despiteful, disputant, disputatious, divisive, duelist, enemy, enforcer, eristic, factional, factious, fencer, ferocious, feuder, fierce, fighter, fighting, fighting cock, foilsman, full of fight, full of hate, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hateful, hawk, hawkish, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hostile, hot, inimical, invading, irascible, irritable, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, jouster, knight, litigious, malevolent, malicious, malignant, martial, militant, militaristic, military, offensive, partisan, plug-ugly, polarizing, polemic, pugnacious, quarreler, quarrelsome, rancorous, repugnant, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, saber-rattling, sabreur, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrapper, scrappy, scuffler, set against, shrewish, soldierlike, soldierly, sore, spiteful, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, tempered, thug, tilter, tough, trigger-happy, truculent, tussler, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, venomous, virulent, vitriolic, warlike, warmonger, warmongering, warring, wrangler, wrangling |
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