belligerent
adjective
uk/bəˈlɪdʒ.ər.ənt/us/bəˈlɪdʒ.ɚ.ənt/disapproving
wishingtofightorargue:
好斗的；挑衅的a belligerentperson好斗的人
a belligerentgesture挑衅的姿态
Watch out! Lee's in a belligerentmood.小心点儿！李今天看谁都不顺眼。
formal
fightingawar:
交战的The belligerentcountriesare havingdifficultiesfundingthewar.交战国均缺乏战争资金。
- He was belligerent, and when thecasewent totrialopenlymockedhisprosecutor.
- Outside thebaris ascrumof belligerentdrunks.
- TheArmyMedical Corps wasappealingto those whowishedtoofferaidtofellowmen intimeofwar, but not tojointhem in belligerentacts.
- Publicopinionin both belligerentstatesseemsto beshiftingagainst thewar.
Violent or aggressive
- aggressive
- aggressively
- aggressiveness
- aggro
- agonistic
- fierce
- fierceness
- fighting words
- flex
- flexyourmusclesidiom
- pugnacity
- rabble-rousing
- raging
- Rambo
- rampage
- viciousness
- violence
- warlike
- warmonger
- warmongering
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War
belligerent
noun[C]
formaluk/bəˈlɪdʒ.ər.ənt/us/bəˈlɪdʒ.ɚ.ənt/acountry,group, orpersonwho isfightingawar:
Manyhopedthe belligerents werefinallyon theroadtopeace.
- Wars often end inpartitiontreatiesin whichterritoryisdividedamong the belligerents.
- He said thatcitizenswhoassociatethemselves with anenemygovernment, andenterthiscountrybentonhostileacts, areenemybelligerents.
War
- antebellum
- anti-militarism
- asymmetric warfare
- battle-scarred
- bellicose
- conflagration
- Geneva Convention
- germ warfare
- gung-ho
- holy war
- scorched-earth policy
- SDI
- sinew
- sinews of waridiom
- smokescreen
- the Great War
- the Second World War
- world war
- World War I
- World War II