combative

3 definitions found

combative - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Combative \Com"bat*ive\ (? or ?), a.
     Disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
     [1913 Webster]

combative - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  combative
      adj 1: inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or
             disagree, even to engage in law suits; "a style described
             as abrasive and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a
             litigious and acrimonious spirit" [syn: contentious,
             combative, disputatious, disputative, litigious]
      2: striving to overcome in argument; "a dialectical and
         agonistic approach" [syn: agonistic, agonistical,
         combative]
      3: having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose
         young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious
         nature" [syn: battleful, bellicose, combative]

combative - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "combative":
     aggressive, antagonistic, argumental, argumentative, battling,
     bellicose, belligerent, bickering, bloodthirsty, bloody,
     bloody-minded, chauvinist, chauvinistic, contentious,
     controversial, dialectic, disputatious, divisive, enemy, energetic,
     eristic, factional, factious, ferocious, fierce, fighting,
     full of fight, hawkish, hostile, ill-humored, inimical, irascible,
     irritable, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, litigious,
     logomachic, manful, manly, martial, militant, militaristic,
     military, offensive, on the offensive, partisan, pilpulistic,
     polarizing, polemic, pro and con, pugnacious, quarrelsome,
     saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, shrewish,
     soldierlike, soldierly, strenuous, trigger-happy, truculent,
     unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, vigorous, virile,
     warlike, warmongering, warring, wrangling