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. 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.

2. House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff:

   And now, when you have Iran engaged in these provocative and belligerent acts attacking shipping, we can't find our allies anywhere, they're worried about this administration rushing to war. They don't have trust in the administration. The administration has ignored their warnings.

3. 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.

4. Antony Blinken:

   It's increasingly belligerent rhetoric, it's recent buildup of forces. It's unusual troop movements along Ukraine's border.

5. 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.