Belligerent \Bel*lig"er*ent\, n.
A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person
engaged in warfare.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Belligerent \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.
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2. Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to
belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
belligerent
adj 1: characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight;
"aggressive acts against another country"; "a
belligerent tone" [syn: aggressive]
2: engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations"; "a
fighting war" [syn: fighting, militant, war-ridden,
warring]
n : someone who fights (or is fighting) [syn: combatant, battler,
fighter, scrapper]
WordNet (r) 2.0
148 Moby Thesaurus words for "belligerent":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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