| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Inclined to act in a hostile way: aggressive, belligerent, combative, contentious, hostile. See ATTACK, ATTITUDE. 2. Having or showing an eagerness to fight: bellicose, belligerent, combative, contentious, hostile, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike. See ATTACK. 3. Of or engaged in warfare: belligerent, combatant, hostile. Idioms: at war. See ATTACK.
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