Antonyms 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

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

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

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1. belligerent

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

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

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1. combatant, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapperadjective

   someone who fights (or is fighting)

   Antonyms:
   peaceable, amicable, peaceful

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

2. aggressive, belligerentadjective

   characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

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

   Antonyms:
   amicable, peaceable, peaceful

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

3. belligerent, militant, war-ridden, warringadjective

   engaged in war

   "belligerent (or warring) nations"

   Antonyms:
   amicable, peaceable, peaceful

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

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1. belligerentadjective

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

How to use belligerent in a sentence?

1. Police Chief Link Strate:

   The initial two officers tried to separate several belligerent and uncooperative individuals when the suspect began to fire and shot a female victim.

2. Donovon Brinson:

   I saw the beginning of the argument [between the girls], the girls were definitely getting really boisterous with each other and using belligerent terms. It's sad.

3. Debra Katz:

   Since then, he has lied publicly over and over again in an attempt to walk back his original admission. Realizing his admission was insufficient to quell the public’s growing calls for accountability, he has since resorted to belligerent lies and a Trumpian refusal to stick to a single set of facts, he has also demonstrated a jaw-dropping ignorance of the sexual harassment law he signed into effect — without great fanfare — suggesting that his behavior is fine because he never meant to make women feel uncomfortable.

4. 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.

5. Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker:

   In the last hour of our hostage crisis, the gunman became increasingly belligerent and threatening, without the instruction we received, we would not have been prepared to act and flee when the situation presented itself.

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