warlikeadjective
uk/ˈwɔː.laɪk/us/ˈwɔːr.laɪk/formaloften involved in and eager to start wars:
It has often been said, perhaps unfairly, that they are a warlike nation/people.
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War
- antebellum
- battle-scarred
- bellicose
- belligerent
- biological warfare
- concord
- crusade
- hostile
- militarism
- militarist
- pacific
- peacekeeping
- phoney war
- pro-war
- scorched-earth policy
- the Great War
- the Second World War
- war clouds are gathering idiom
- war-torn
- warfare
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