Meaning of COMBATIVE
| Pronunciation: | | kum'bativ
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- [adj] having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature"
- [adj] striving to overcome in argument; "a dialectical and agonistic approach"
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| | Synonyms: | | aggressive, agonistic, agonistical, battleful, bellicose, competitive, competitory, contentious |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Com"bat*ive\ (? or ?), a.
Disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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