combative
/ˈkɒmbətɪv
/ /ˈkʌmbətɪv/adjective
Ready or eager to fight or argue: he made some enemies with his combative style...
- This combative style is not surprising given her background.
- Even many who sympathize with his concerns find his combative style haughty and unforgiving.
- Now 27, his combative style has become crucial to Leeds United's title challenge.
Synonyms
pugnacious, aggressive, antagonistic, quarrelsome, argumentative, contentious, hostile, truculent, threatening, belligerent, bellicose, militant, warlike, warmongering, hawkish, militaristic
informal spoiling for a fight
North American informal badass
rare oppugnant
Derivatives
combatively
/ adverb ...- It also ensures that inveterate political opponents have a reliable forum in which they can engage safely and combatively with each other.
- Interestingly, the first season puts a strong focus on the relationship between father Howard and son Ritchie, the two working cooperatively and sometimes combatively through the ups and downs of teenage life.
- This is followed by a narrative poem which combatively asserts the central role played by women (Eve, the Virgin Mary, Pilate's wife, the daughters of Jerusalem) in the Christian tradition.
combativeness
/ noun ...- Its combativeness, its hostility to everything it perceives as a threat, works against it here.
- Age may have withered his speed, but his combativeness remains undimmed.
- But, in the end, the combativeness that stood him in such good stead as a politician cost him the job he loves, leaving him both personally and professionally bereft.