Combative \Com"bat*ive\ (? or ?), a.
Disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
combative
adj 1: striving to overcome in argument; "a dialectical and
agonistic approach" [syn: agonistic, agonistical]
2: having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose
young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious
nature" [syn: battleful, bellicose, contentious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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