BELLIGERENT Synonyms

• arousing animosity or hostility

• used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect

• indicating opposition or resistance

• characterized by antagonism or antipathy

• incapable of harmonious association

• having or showing a ready disposition to fight

• inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits

• striving to overcome in argument

• having or showing a ready disposition to fight

• a militant reformer

• disposed to warfare or hard-line policies

• showing a fighting disposition

• engaged in war

• tough and callous by virtue of experience

• ready and able to resort to force or violence

• given to quarreling

• defiantly aggressive

• of or relating to confrontation

• boldly resisting authority or an opposing force

• stubbornly resistant to authority or control

• easily irritated or annoyed

• unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome

• characterized by enmity or ill will

• not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally

• troops belonging to the enemy's military forces

• impossible to bring into friendly accord

• very unfavorable to life or growth

• unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)

• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

• darkened by clouds

• disposed to warfare or hard-line policies

• suggesting war or military life

• someone who fights (or is fighting)

• someone who fights (or is fighting)

• engaging in or ready for combat

• inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits

• involving or likely to cause controversy

• someone who fights (or is fighting)

• a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air

• someone who fights for a cause

• someone who fights (or is fighting)

• engaged in war