Fighting
Warlike
Warlike adjective - Feeling or displaying eagerness to fight.
Usage example: a seafarer's legend that the remote island was inhabited by a warlike and uncivilized tribe
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- ferocious and fighting
- ferocious and warlike
- hostile and fighting
- hostile and warlike
- truculent and fighting
- truculent and warlike
- quarrelsome and fighting
- quarrelsome and warlike
- military and fighting
- military and warlike
- aggressive and fighting
- aggressive and warlike
- belligerent and fighting
- belligerent and warlike
Both words in one sentence
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Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Subverted; in the first game, they're introduced as an enemy, but they're only fighting you because of the warlike leader Sss-Thsss commanding them.
Source: Video Game / Avernum -
It's also a very warlike world because humans don't do the fighting, so they're free to be as expansionist as they please.
Source: Visual Novel / Eien no Aselia - Renarin Kholin from The Stormlight Archive has a blood weakness that prevents him from fighting, which a source of angst for him, since he is part of the royal family of a warlike culture.
Source: Ill Girl / Literature
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