Word Meanings - BELLIGERENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BELLIGERENT)
- Bellicose
- Quarrelsome
- pugnacious
- belligerent
- irascible
- contentious
- Warlike
- Military
- martial
- soldierly
- hostile
- bellicose
- soldierlike
Related words: (words related to BELLIGERENT)
- MARTIALIST
A warrior. Fuller. - SOLDIERLY
Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike. "Soldierly discipline." Sir P. Sidney. - SOLDIERLIKE
Like a soldier; soldierly. - CONTENTIOUS
Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed - MARTIAL
Pertaining to, or containing, iron; chalybeate; as, martial preparations. Martial flowers , a reddish crystalline salt of iron; the ammonio-chloride of iron. -- Martial law, the law administered by the military power of a government when it - WARLIKENESS
Quality of being warlike. - HOSTILELY
In a hostile manner. - MARTIALLY
In a martial manner. - WARLIKE
1. Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition. Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men. Shak. 2. Belonging or relating to war; military; martial. The great archangel from his warlike toil Surceased. Milton. Syn. - BELLIGERENTLY
In a belligerent manner; hostilely. - QUARRELSOME
Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric. Syn. -- Pugnacious; irritable; irascible; brawling; choleric; fiery; petulant. -- Quar"rel*some*ly, adv. -- Quar"rel*some*ness, - MARTIALISM
The quality of being warlike; exercises suitable for war. - PUGNACIOUS
Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting. --Pug*na"cious*ly, adv. -- Pug*na"cious*ness, n. - MILITARY
1. Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, - IRASCIBLE
Prone to anger; easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable; as, an irascible man; an irascible temper or mood. -- I*ras"ci*ble*ness, n. -- I*ras"ci*bly, adv. - MARTIALNESS
The quality of being martial. - BELLICOSELY
In a bellicose manner. - HOSTILE
Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile - BELLICOSE
Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious. Arnold was, in fact, in a bellicose vein. W. Irving. - BELLIGERENT
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. - COURT-MARTIAL
A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law. - COBELLIGERENT
Carryng on war in conjunction with another power. - IMMARTIAL
Not martial; unwarlike.