Synonyms for belligerent
bəˈlɪdʒ ər əntbel·li·ger·ent

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1. belligerentadjective

   (By extension) Aggressively hostile, eager to fight.

   Synonyms:
   aggressive, contentious, combative, antagonistic, quarrelsome, pugnacious, bellicose, truculent

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1. belligerent

   Synonyms:
   adverse, alienated, antagonistic, bellicose, cold, contentious, disaffected, distant, estranged, frigid, hostile, ill-disposed, indifferent, inimical, unfriendly, unkind, warlike

   Antonyms:
   accessible, affable, affectionate, amicable, brotherly, companionable, complaisant, cordial, favorable, fond, friendly, genial, hearty, kind, kindly, loving, neighborly, sociable, social, tender, well-disposed

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1. belligerent

   Synonyms:
   contending, engaging, fighting, opposed, adverse, rival, conflicting, antagonist, assailant, hostile

   Antonyms:
   neutral, pacific, peaceful, nonbelligerent, appeased, reconciled

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1. combatant, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapperadjective

   someone who fights (or is fighting)

   Synonyms:
   fighter aircraft, combatant, attack aircraft, paladin, champion, fighter, battler, scrapper, hero

   Antonyms:
   peaceable, amicable, peaceful

2. aggressive, belligerentadjective

   characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

   "aggressive acts against another country"; "a belligerent tone"

   Synonyms:
   fast-growing(a), militant, strong-growing, aggressive, war-ridden, warring

   Antonyms:
   amicable, peaceable, peaceful

3. belligerent, militant, war-ridden, warringadjective

   engaged in war

   "belligerent (or warring) nations"

   Synonyms:
   aggressive, warlike, warring, competitive, hawkish, war-ridden, militant

   Antonyms:
   amicable, peaceable, peaceful

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1. belligerentadjective

   Synonyms:
   carrying on war, engaged in war, waging war

2. belligerentadjective

   Synonyms:
   of belligerents

3. belligerentadjective

   Synonyms:
   warlike, hostile

4. belligerentnoun

   Synonyms:
   belligerent state or nation

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1. belligerentadjective

   Synonyms:
   at war, warring, militant, bellicose, pugnacious

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1. List of paraphrases for "belligerent":

   warring, belligerence, bellicose, belligerency, warlike, hostile, militant, aggressive

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How to use belligerent in a sentence?

1. John McKinney:

   The conversation wasn't particularly intense, it wasn't particularly belligerent, and it lasted about four minutes.

2. The US:

   Although designated an' alien unprivileged enemy belligerent,' not technically afforded the rights of The US citizens, the complete disregard for the foundational concepts upon which the Constitution was founded is an affront to American values and concepts of justice, mr. Khan was subject to physical and psychological abuse well beyond approved enhanced interrogation techniques, instead being closer to torture performed by the most abusive regimes in modern history.

3. Alan Gross:

   It pains me to see them treated so unjustly as a consequence of two governments' mutually belligerent policies, five-and-a-half decades of history shows us that such belligerence inhibits better judgment. Two wrongs don't make a right.

4. Jill Gann:

   He was very belligerent and aggressive.

5. Dmitry Suslov:

   The whole reason behind the concentration of troops by Russia at the Ukrainian border is to create tension, to accompany the Russian political demands with the demonstration of military force, which has already brought some significant positive results to Russia, from the Russian perspective, and this is the predominant opinion really widespread in Moscow, withoutthe concentration of the Russian troops, without belligerent rhetoric, without speculation about the ‘military-technical’ response by Russia, Russian security guarantee demands would have gone directly to the dustbins everywhere in the West.