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. Ambassador Tesfamicael Gerahtu:

   Ethiopia’s belligerent stance, as a way of trying to weaken Eritrea ... and even make regime change in Eritrea, has also been part of this equation.

2. Rick Raynor:

   I'd rather work nine Grateful Dead concerts than one Oregon football game. They don't get belligerent like they do at the games.

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. Tom Luehrs:

   A lot of the people that we work with are wanting to get jobs, wanting to get housing, wanting to move out of homelessness, so then you have this other group that's kind of even belligerent and certainly not engaging and sometimes just very disrespectful. They don't care.

5. Steve Goldman:

   There a relief that (China's selloff) didn't continue. There's a relief that there doesn't seem to be any belligerent tone coming out of Greece.