combative — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.

   Esempi

   Their combative conduct leads to many problems.

   Altri esempi (1)

   He finds, not “demigods” but “a combative group of exhausted, drunken, broken, petty, partisan, scheming, squabbling, bloviating, sensory-deprived, underoxygenated, fed-up, talked-out, overheated delegates so distraught they threatened violence, secession.

   Salvation arrived - as it so often has in this nerve-shredding campaign - through Dykes, the combative striker.

Aggettivo

1. inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits

   Sinonimi

   contentiousdisputatiousdisputativelitigious

   Esempi

   a style described as abrasive and contentious

   a disputatious lawyer

   Altri esempi (1)

   a litigious and acrimonious spirit

2. striving to overcome in argument

   Sinonimi

   agonisticagonistical

   Esempi

   a dialectical and agonistic approach

3. having or showing a ready disposition to fight

   Sinonimi

   battlefulbellicose

   Esempi

   bellicose young officers

   a combative impulse