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Pronunciation:
[ kˈɒmbətˌɪv], [ kˈɒmbətˌɪv], [ k_ˈɒ_m_b_ə_t_ˌɪ_v]
If you are looking for synonyms for the word "combative," you can consider words like aggressive, antagonistic, feisty, contentious, bellicose, militant, pugnacious, confrontational, belligerent, contentious, and quarrelsome. These words indicate a tendency towards fighting or engaging in conflict, either physically or verbally. Combative people often have a strong desire to win and can be argumentative or even hostile towards others. It is important to use these words correctly and in the appropriate context since they can have negative connotations and can be interpreted as aggressive behavior. Choose your words wisely and use them strategically to get your point across without offending others or escalating a potentially volatile situation.
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Similar words for combative:
- aggressive (adjective)
- argumentative (adjective)
- military (adjective)
- pugnacious (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- bellicose (adjective)
- belligerent (adjective)
- competitive (adjective)
- contentious (adjective)
- eristic (adjective)
- fighting (adjective)
- quarrelsome (adjective)
- saucy (adjective)
- truculent (adjective)
- unfriendly (adjective)
- litigiousness (noun)
- armed
- belligerent
- combative
- militant
- military
- noun
- other relevant words (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Combative:
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adj.
• aggressive • argumentative • military • pugnacious • all • bellicose • belligerent- flip ,
- flippest ,
- have a bone pick ,
- have bone pick ,
- have bone to pick ,
- have chip on shoulder ,
- have chip shoulder ,
- have in for ,
- have it for ,
- hot tempered ,
- more battling ,
- most battling ,
- on outs .
- dog eat dog ,
- killer ,
- killer instinct ,
- more competing ,
- more killer ,
- more streetwise ,
- more vying ,
- most competing ,
- most killer ,
- most streetwise ,
- most vying .
- dis putative ,
- dis-putative ,
- fencing ,
- more boxing ,
- more brawling ,
- more contending ,
- more disputative ,
- more fencing ,
- more jingoistic ,
- more jousting ,
- more skirmishing ,
- more sparring ,
- more tilting ,
- more warmongering ,
- more wrestling ,
- most boxing ,
- most brawling ,
- most contending ,
- most disputative ,
- most fencing ,
- most jingoistic ,
- most jousting ,
- most skirmishing ,
- most sparring ,
- most tilting ,
- most warmongering ,
- most wrestling ,
- re solute ,
- re-solute ,
- ready fight ,
- un beatable ,
- un-beatable ,
- up arms .
- bad tempered ,
- badtempered ,
- cat and dog ,
- ex citable ,
- ex-citable ,
- more cat and dog ,
- more cat-and-dog ,
- more dissentious ,
- more gladiatorial ,
- more pettish ,
- more ructious ,
- most cat and dog ,
- most cat-and-dog ,
- most dissentious ,
- most gladiatorial ,
- most pettish ,
- most ructious ,
- thin skinned ,
- thinskinned ,
- warrest .
- in solent ,
- in-solent ,
- meddlesome ,
- more weisenheiming ,
- most weisenheiming ,
- pre sumptuous ,
- smartalecky .
- co wing ,
- co-wing ,
- in human ,
- in-human ,
- in-humane ,
- more browbeating ,
- more cowing ,
- more invective ,
- more terrorizing ,
- more vituperous ,
- most browbeating ,
- most cowing ,
- most invective ,
- most terrorizing ,
- most vituperous .
- anti social ,
- dis affected ,
- dis-affected ,
- ill disposed ,
- illdisposed ,
- in auspicious ,
- in hospitable ,
- in-auspicious ,
- in-hospitable ,
- mis anthropic ,
- mis-anthropic ,
- more against ,
- more estranged ,
- more grudging ,
- more ill disposed ,
- more ill-disposed ,
- more illdisposed ,
- more unneighborly ,
- most against ,
- most estranged ,
- most grudging ,
- most ill disposed ,
- most ill-disposed ,
- most illdisposed ,
- most unneighborly ,
- not on speaking terms ,
- not speaking terms ,
- un charitable ,
- un congenial ,
- un favorable ,
- un friendlier ,
- un friendliest ,
- un friendly ,
- un neighborly ,
- un propitious ,
- un-charitable ,
- un-congenial ,
- un-favorable ,
- un-friendlier ,
- un-friendliest ,
- un-friendly ,
- un-neighborly ,
- un-sociable .
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n.
• litigiousness Other synonyms:
- Eristic ,
- cantankerous ,
- contrary ,
- ornery ,
- polemical ,
- quarrelsome ,
- scrappy ,
- shrewish ,
- snippy .
- volatile .
Other relevant words:
- abhorrent ,
- abominable ,
- abrasive ,
- absorb ,
- acerb ,
- acerbic ,
- acid ,
- acrid ,
- acrobatic ,
- active ,
- activist ,
- acute ,
- advancing ,
- adversary ,
- adverse ,
- aggress ,
- ahead ,
- all-fired ,
- all-firedly ,
- alternate ,
- animus ,
- antagonist ,
- antipathetic ,
- antipathetical ,
- approach ,
- arduous ,
- arguing ,
- argument ,
- armed combat ,
- armed forces ,
- armed services ,
- assail ,
- assault ,
- atrabilious ,
- atrociousness ,
- attack aircraft ,
- attempt ,
- awful ,
- bad blood ,
- bad-mannered ,
- baffle ,
- baleful ,
- bally ,
- ballyrag ,
- barbarian ,
- barbaric ,
- barbarism ,
- barbarity ,
- barbarousness ,
- basal ,
- base ,
- battle ,
- battler ,
- beast ,
- bicker ,
- bilious ,
- bilk ,
- bitter ,
- blast ,
- blinking ,
- blistering ,
- bloodstained ,
- blooming ,
- boisterous ,
- boss around ,
- bounderish ,
- bowelless ,
- browbeat ,
- brutal ,
- brutality ,
- brutally ,
- brute ,
- bully ,
- bullyrag ,
- bumptious ,
- busy ,
- busybodied ,
- butcherly ,
- cause of death ,
- caustic ,
- challenger ,
- champion ,
- chemical group ,
- coarse ,
- combat-ready ,
- competitor ,
- compulsive ,
- conflicting ,
- constrained ,
- contend ,
- contender ,
- contestant ,
- contestation ,
- contradictory ,
- contravene ,
- controversy ,
- counter ,
- counterpoint ,
- cover ,
- crabbed ,
- crabby ,
- crank ,
- crashing ,
- craze ,
- crimson ,
- crisscross ,
- crossbreed ,
- crossbreeding ,
- crossing ,
- crotchety ,
- crown of thorns ,
- crucify ,
- cruddy ,
- crude ,
- cruel ,
- crusty ,
- cult ,
- cut across ,
- cut through ,
- cutthroat ,
- damn ,
- dark ,
- deadly ,
- defensive attitude ,
- delirium ,
- demarcation ,
- despairing ,
- detestable ,
- dictated ,
- difference ,
- difference of opinion ,
- dire ,
- direct contrast ,
- discriminating ,
- disharmonious ,
- disputation ,
- dispute ,
- dissenter ,
- dissenting ,
- dissonant ,
- dividing line ,
- do-or-die ,
- dogmatical ,
- dogmatist ,
- dour ,
- dreadful ,
- driven ,
- drumbeater ,
- emphasised ,
- emphasized ,
- encounter ,
- engagement ,
- engross ,
- engulf ,
- enthusiast ,
- equal ,
- erinyes ,
- eumenides ,
- excitable ,
- exclamatory ,
- exorbitant ,
- explosive ,
- extortionate ,
- extremist ,
- face-off ,
- fad ,
- fast-growing ,
- fell ,
- fence ,
- fencing material ,
- ferociousness ,
- ferocity ,
- fickle ,
- fight ,
- fighter aircraft ,
- filthy ,
- fin ,
- fire ,
- firm ,
- flack ,
- flag-waver ,
- flag-waving ,
- flagitious ,
- flak ,
- flaming ,
- flick ,
- flip out ,
- flip over ,
- flip-flop ,
- foe ,
- foeman ,
- foil ,
- forbidding ,
- force ,
- forceful ,
- fore ,
- forrad ,
- forrader ,
- forrard ,
- forth ,
- forward-moving ,
- forwards ,
- foul ,
- frantic ,
- free radical ,
- free-enterprise ,
- frenetic ,
- frenzy ,
- fresh ,
- fretful ,
- frightful ,
- frontward ,
- frontwards ,
- froward ,
- frustrate ,
- fucking ,
- furious ,
- furiousness ,
- furor ,
- furore ,
- fuss ,
- fussy ,
- get across ,
- get over ,
- glowering ,
- glum ,
- grampus ,
- grievous ,
- group ,
- gruff ,
- grumpy ,
- gumptious ,
- gymnastic ,
- haggle ,
- haggling ,
- hard ,
- hard-bitten ,
- hard-boiled ,
- headstrong ,
- heavy ,
- hector ,
- heinousness ,
- heretical ,
- hero ,
- heroic ,
- heterodox ,
- hideous ,
- horrible ,
- horrifying ,
- hotheaded ,
- huffy ,
- hundred-percenter ,
- hybrid ,
- hybridisation ,
- hybridise ,
- hybridization ,
- hybridize ,
- hybridizing ,
- hysteria ,
- ill will ,
- ill-bred ,
- ill-humoured ,
- ill-mannered ,
- immerse ,
- impertinent ,
- impregnable ,
- impudent ,
- incompatible ,
- industrious ,
- infringe ,
- infuse ,
- inharmonic ,
- inhumanity ,
- insolent ,
- interbreed ,
- interbreeding ,
- interchange ,
- interfering ,
- intersect ,
- inviolable ,
- irreverent ,
- justificative ,
- justificatory ,
- keen ,
- killer whale ,
- knifelike ,
- labored ,
- laboured ,
- lash out ,
- leaf ,
- line ,
- liverish ,
- loathsome ,
- lowbred ,
- lowering ,
- madness ,
- male ,
- manfully ,
- manic ,
- manlike ,
- mark ,
- match ,
- meddling ,
- menacing ,
- mental attitude ,
- military machine ,
- minacious ,
- minatory ,
- monstrous ,
- moody ,
- morose ,
- nagging ,
- nationalistic ,
- natural ,
- nauseating ,
- nauseous ,
- nettlesome ,
- noisome ,
- obdurate ,
- objector ,
- obscene ,
- offence ,
- offense ,
- officious ,
- ominous ,
- onrush ,
- onset ,
- onslaught ,
- onward ,
- onwards ,
- opinionative ,
- opposer ,
- opposing ,
- opposite ,
- oppositeness ,
- orca ,
- outrageous ,
- overbold ,
- painful ,
- paladin ,
- partizan ,
- pass ,
- pass over ,
- passion ,
- patrioteer ,
- peaky ,
- peckish ,
- penetrating ,
- penetrative ,
- pert ,
- perverse ,
- phrenetic ,
- physical ,
- piercing ,
- pillory ,
- piquant ,
- pitch ,
- plan of attack ,
- plucky ,
- plunge ,
- position ,
- posture ,
- potent ,
- primitive ,
- private-enterprise ,
- protester ,
- pugnacity ,
- push around ,
- pushful ,
- queasy ,
- queer ,
- quick-tempered ,
- ramp ,
- raw ,
- recusant ,
- red ,
- refractory ,
- repugn ,
- repugnant ,
- resistance ,
- resister ,
- reverse ,
- revolutionist ,
- riff ,
- riffle ,
- root ,
- root word ,
- rotatory ,
- rough ,
- roughshod ,
- round ,
- run afoul ,
- sabre rattling ,
- sanguine ,
- sassy ,
- saturnine ,
- savageness ,
- scotch ,
- scrap ,
- scrapper ,
- scratchy ,
- sea wolf ,
- secure ,
- self-asserting ,
- self-assertiveness ,
- self-contradictory ,
- self-opinionated ,
- send on ,
- set ,
- set on ,
- sharp ,
- showdown ,
- sickening ,
- sinister ,
- sky ,
- slaughterous ,
- slayer ,
- smart ,
- smutty ,
- snipe ,
- snotty-nosed ,
- soak up ,
- solid ,
- somersault ,
- somersaulting ,
- somerset ,
- sour ,
- span ,
- spat ,
- spoil ,
- spunky ,
- squabble ,
- stem ,
- stiff ,
- storm ,
- straining ,
- street smart ,
- strong-growing ,
- strong-willed ,
- struggle ,
- substantial ,
- subversive ,
- subverter ,
- sulfurous ,
- sulphurous ,
- superpatriotic ,
- sweep ,
- switch ,
- tack ,
- tearing ,
- techy ,
- tender ,
- terrible ,
- tetchy ,
- theme ,
- thin-skinned ,
- throw ,
- thumb ,
- thwart ,
- thwartwise ,
- tiff ,
- tight ,
- tilt ,
- tippy ,
- tone-beginning ,
- toss ,
- touch ,
- touchy ,
- track ,
- transversal ,
- transverse ,
- traverse ,
- turn over ,
- twitch ,
- ugly ,
- ultra ,
- ultranationalistic ,
- unassailable ,
- unattackable ,
- uncivil ,
- uncivilised ,
- uncivilized ,
- uncongenial ,
- unconscionable ,
- underbred ,
- unmanageable ,
- unmannered ,
- unmannerly ,
- unneighbourly ,
- unregenerate ,
- unrepentant ,
- unsavory ,
- unsavoury ,
- unspeakable ,
- unsympathetic ,
- up-and-coming ,
- usurious ,
- vehemence ,
- vehement ,
- venomous ,
- vicious ,
- viciously ,
- viciousness ,
- vile ,
- violative ,
- vitriolic ,
- vituperative ,
- war advocacy ,
- war machine ,
- war-ridden ,
- warm ,
- warriorlike ,
- wayward ,
- whiney ,
- whiny ,
- wild ,
- wildcat ,
- wildness ,
- willful ,
- wise ,
- with-it ,
- wolf ,
- wrangle ,
- yokelish ,
- zealot .
- Argumental ,
- Armigerous ,
- Battling ,
- Brawly ,
- Chippy ,
- Hard-headed ,
- Palestric ,
- Palestrical ,
- Polarizing ,
- Squabbling ,
- aggression ,
- aggressive ,
- aggressiveness ,
- agonistic ,
- agonistical ,
- animosity ,
- antagonism ,
- antagonistic ,
- antithesis ,
- assaultive ,
- assertiveness ,
- athletic ,
- attack ,
- attacking ,
- attitude ,
- bad-tempered ,
- barbarous ,
- battleful ,
- belligerence ,
- belligerency ,
- bickering ,
- bloodthirsty ,
- bloody ,
- bloody-minded ,
- chauvinist ,
- chauvinistic ,
- choleric ,
- combat ,
- combatant ,
- competition ,
- competitive ,
- competitory ,
- confrontational ,
- contention ,
- contest ,
- contrariety ,
- contrast ,
- controversial ,
- cranky ,
- cross ,
- curmudgeonly ,
- cussed ,
- defensive ,
- dialectic ,
- dialectical ,
- difficult ,
- disagreeable ,
- discordant ,
- disputatious ,
- disputative ,
- dissentient ,
- dissentious ,
- dissident ,
- divisive ,
- doctrinaire ,
- dogmatic ,
- dyspeptic ,
- emphatic ,
- enemy ,
- energetic ,
- enmity ,
- factional ,
- factious ,
- feisty ,
- feral ,
- ferocious ,
- feud ,
- fierce ,
- fierceness ,
- fighter ,
- fighting ,
- fire-eating ,
- fractious ,
- full of fight ,
- fury ,
- gladiatorial ,
- grouchy ,
- harsh ,
- hawkish ,
- hostility ,
- hot-tempered ,
- ill-humored ,
- ill-tempered ,
- incisive ,
- inimical ,
- irascible ,
- irritable ,
- jingo ,
- jingoish ,
- jingoist ,
- jingoistic ,
- litigious ,
- manful ,
- manly ,
- militaristic ,
- nasty ,
- obstinate ,
- obstreperous ,
- on the offensive ,
- opinionated ,
- opponent ,
- opposition ,
- partisan ,
- peevish ,
- petulant ,
- pro and con ,
- provocative ,
- pugilistic ,
- querulous ,
- radical ,
- rage ,
- ready to fight ,
- recalcitrant ,
- revolutionary ,
- rival ,
- rivalry ,
- ructious ,
- rude ,
- saber rattling ,
- sanguinary ,
- sanguineous ,
- saucy ,
- savage ,
- scathing ,
- self-willed ,
- short-tempered ,
- soldier ,
- soldier-like ,
- soldierlike ,
- strained ,
- strenuous ,
- strong ,
- strong-minded ,
- stubborn ,
- sullen ,
- surly ,
- testy ,
- threatening ,
- trigger-happy ,
- unpacific ,
- unpeaceable ,
- unpeaceful ,
- unpleasant ,
- vigorous ,
- violence ,
- violent ,
- virile ,
- virulent ,
- volcanic ,
- warmongering ,
- warring ,
- warrior ,
- wilful ,
- wrangling .
- Eristical ,
- anti-social ,
- at loggerheads ,
- at odds ,
- bellicose ,
- belligerent ,
- cat-and-dog ,
- flipper ,
- have a bone to pick ,
- have for ,
- have it in for ,
- hottempered ,
- ill-disposed ,
- inhumane ,
- jousting ,
- on the outs ,
- pettish ,
- smart alecky ,
- streetwise ,
- truculent ,
- under arms ,
- unneighborly ,
- vituperous ,
- warlike ,
- warrer ,
- weisenheiming .
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How to use "Combative" in context?
Fighting is a regular part of life for many animals. Even among social creatures such as chimpanzees, violent conflicts are common, mediated by quick and decisive action. However, there are also social animals that use aggression sparingly, such as gorillas. This difference in aggression has been attributed to differences in combative repertoire (the breadth and variety of aggression used by an animal). For example, chimpanzees are known to engage in well-planned, coordinated raiding attacks on small primate communities, while gorillas are less likely to do so. In addition, the combative repertoire of different animals can also be representative of their evolutionary histories.
Paraphrases for Combative:
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Independent
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Adjective
offensive.
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Adjective
aggressive, militant.
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