What is another word for combative?
347 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ kˈɒmbətˌɪv], [ kˈɒmbətˌɪv], [ k_ˈɒ_m_b_ə_t_ˌɪ_v]Table of Contents
Similar words for combative:- aggressive (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- argumentative (adjective)
- bellicose (adjective)
- belligerent (adjective)
- competitive (adjective)
- contentious (adjective)
- disrespectful (adjective)
- eristic (adjective)
- fighting (adjective)
- military (adjective)
- pugnacious (adjective)
- quarrelsome (adjective)
- saucy (adjective)
- truculent (adjective)
- unfriendly (adjective)
- agonistic (noun)
- agonistical (noun)
- combative (noun)
- litigiousness (noun)
- other synonyms
- militant
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Combative:
adj.
•aggressive (adjective)- hawkish,
- hostile,
- strenuous,
- forward,
- pushy,
- fire-eating,
- militant,
- intrusive,
- domineering,
- determined,
- cussed,
- trigger-happy,
- energetic,
- offensive,
- assertive,
- confrontational,
- antagonistic.
- more battling,
- have a bone pick,
- on outs,
- hot tempered,
- have it for,
- flippest,
- have in for,
- most battling,
- have bone to pick,
- have chip shoulder,
- have bone pick,
- flip,
- have chip on shoulder.
- killer,
- most competing,
- dog eat dog,
- more killer,
- more streetwise,
- more competing,
- killer instinct,
- most killer,
- most streetwise,
- most vying,
- more vying.
- re-solute,
- more warmongering,
- more boxing,
- dis putative,
- most brawling,
- more jingoistic,
- up arms,
- most skirmishing,
- most tilting,
- most boxing,
- most jousting,
- more sparring,
- more tilting,
- un beatable,
- most disputative,
- more disputative,
- re solute,
- dis-putative,
- more brawling,
- more contending,
- more wrestling,
- most sparring,
- more jousting,
- most fencing,
- most warmongering,
- most wrestling,
- fencing,
- most contending,
- more fencing,
- un-beatable,
- most jingoistic,
- more skirmishing,
- ready fight.
- most dissentious,
- ex citable,
- ex-citable,
- more dissentious,
- badtempered,
- more cat-and-dog,
- thinskinned,
- most cat-and-dog,
- more pettish,
- cat and dog,
- warrest,
- most ructious,
- more cat and dog,
- most gladiatorial,
- bad tempered,
- most cat and dog,
- most pettish,
- more ructious,
- more gladiatorial,
- thin skinned.
- pre sumptuous,
- in solent,
- more weisenheiming,
- in-solent,
- meddlesome,
- most weisenheiming,
- smartalecky.
- most invective,
- co-wing,
- most cowing,
- more terrorizing,
- in human,
- more vituperous,
- most terrorizing,
- more browbeating,
- most browbeating,
- more cowing,
- co wing,
- more invective,
- in-humane,
- in-human,
- most vituperous.
- mis anthropic,
- un-friendliest,
- dis affected,
- un friendliest,
- more ill-disposed,
- un charitable,
- un friendly,
- more grudging,
- in-hospitable,
- un-neighborly,
- most ill-disposed,
- un-charitable,
- most ill disposed,
- anti social,
- most against,
- un neighborly,
- un-congenial,
- most estranged,
- illdisposed,
- un favorable,
- mis-anthropic,
- un congenial,
- un-friendlier,
- more estranged,
- more against,
- in auspicious,
- not speaking terms,
- most grudging,
- in hospitable,
- not on speaking terms,
- un-favorable,
- ill disposed,
- un propitious,
- more illdisposed,
- most unneighborly,
- un-friendly,
- more unneighborly,
- in-auspicious,
- un-sociable,
- most illdisposed,
- un friendlier,
- more ill disposed,
- dis-affected.
n.
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- volatile,
- contrarian,
- attack.
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- attitude.
Other synonyms:
•militant •Other relevant words:- warrior,
- fighter,
- recalcitrant,
- competition,
- grouchy,
- saber rattling,
- inimical,
- chauvinistic,
- dialectical,
- violence,
- aggression,
- contention,
- dyspeptic,
- contest,
- rival,
- strong-minded,
- antagonism,
- dissident,
- feral,
- controversial,
- querulous,
- nasty,
- virulent,
- full of fight,
- divisive,
- hostility,
- violent,
- contrariety,
- jingo,
- rivalry,
- bad-tempered,
- on the offensive,
- emphatic,
- curmudgeonly,
- enmity,
- pugilistic,
- dogmatic,
- cross,
- harsh,
- doctrinaire,
- Chippy,
- petulant,
- manful,
- opponent,
- fierce,
- peevish,
- self-willed,
- jingoist,
- wilful,
- radical,
- incisive,
- irascible,
- rage,
- vigorous,
- irritable,
- combat,
- strained,
- ill-tempered,
- combatant,
- enemy,
- soldier-like,
- aggressiveness,
- animosity,
- fury,
- jingoish,
- factious,
- contrast,
- discordant,
- disagreeable,
- Argumental,
- volcanic,
- virile,
- rude,
- unpleasant,
- difficult,
- scathing,
- savage,
- belligerence,
- attacking,
- dissentient,
- Battling,
- chauvinist,
- pro and con,
- sanguinary,
- Squabbling,
- surly,
- bloody,
- belligerency,
- unpacific,
- defensive,
- hot-tempered,
- bloodthirsty,
- assertiveness,
- manly,
- Palestrical,
- factional,
- choleric,
- sullen,
- cranky,
- obstreperous,
- Polarizing,
- assaultive,
- bloody-minded,
- unpeaceable,
- Hard-headed,
- ferocious,
- bickering,
- opposition,
- unpeaceful,
- stubborn,
- obstinate,
- soldier,
- athletic,
- dialectic,
- wrangling,
- Palestric,
- ill-humored,
- strong,
- barbarous,
- partisan,
- Brawly,
- feisty,
- soldierlike,
- short-tempered,
- threatening,
- revolutionary,
- antithesis,
- feud,
- provocative,
- testy,
- sanguineous,
- fractious,
- fierceness,
- Armigerous.
Paraphrases for Combative:
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Independent
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Adjective
offensive.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
aggressive, militant.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Combative:
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adj.
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aggressive
peaceful, peaceloving, compromising, nice, agreeable, kind.
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Other antonyms:
sociable, amicable, easygoing, cordial, friendly, kindhearted, relaxed, amiable, mild, good-natured, complaisant, affable, gracious, good-tempered, tranquil, noncompetitive, ingratiating, gentle, nonaggressive, benign, genial, unargumentative, obliging, quiet, calm, benevolent, kindly, unaggressive, nonbelligerent, pleasant, serene, unwarlike.
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aggressive