belligerentadjective
uk/bəˈlɪdʒ.ər.ənt/us/bəˈlɪdʒ.ɚ.ənt/disapproving wishing to fight or argue:
a belligerent person
a belligerent gesture
Watch out! Lee's in a belligerent mood.
formal fighting a war:
The belligerent countries are having difficulties funding the war.
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Violent or aggressive
- aggressive
- aggro
- all hell breaks loose idiom
- atrocious
- atrocity
- confrontation
- desperate
- forced
- forcible
- frenzied
- gay-basher
- gory
- hostile
- sabre-rattling
- savage
- savagely
- savagery
- steep
- steeped in blood idiom
- strong-arm
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belligerence
noun [ U ] uk/bəˈlɪdʒ.ər.əns/us/bəˈlɪdʒ.ɚ.əns/also belligerency, uk/-ənsi/us
I can't stand his belligerence (= his wish to argue with people all the time).
belligerently
adverb uk/bəˈlɪdʒ.ər.ənt.li/us/bəˈlɪdʒ.ɚ.ənt.li/