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Synonyms for warlike
ˈwɔrˌlaɪkwar·like
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Wiktionary
warlikeadjective
Antonyms:
nonwarlikewarlikeadjective
Antonyms:
nonwarlikewarlikeadjective
Antonyms:
nonwarlike
English Synonyms and Antonyms
warlike
Synonyms:
adverse, alienated, antagonistic, bellicose, belligerent, cold, contentious, disaffected, distant, estranged, frigid, hostile, ill-disposed, indifferent, inimical, unfriendly, unkindAntonyms:
accessible, affable, affectionate, amicable, brotherly, companionable, complaisant, cordial, favorable, fond, friendly, genial, hearty, kind, kindly, loving, neighborly, sociable, social, tender, well-disposed
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
warlike
Synonyms:
military, martial, soldierly, hostile, bellicose, soldierlike, belligerentAntonyms:
peaceful, civil, unwarlike, pacific, unmilitary
Princeton's WordNet
militant, hawkish, warlikeadjective
disposed to warfare or hard-line policies
"militant nations"; "hawkish congressman"; "warlike policies"
Synonyms:
warring, competitive, hawkish, war-ridden, belligerent, martial, militantAntonyms:
unmilitary, peaceful, nonmilitary, peaceablewarlike, martialadjective
suggesting war or military life
Synonyms:
soldierly, soldierlike, warriorlike, hawkish, martial(a), martial, militantAntonyms:
peaceable, unmilitary, peaceful, nonmilitary
Dictionary of English Synonymes
warlikeadjective
warlikeadjective
Synonyms:
inimical, unfriendly, hostile, at variance
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
warlikeadjective
Synonyms:
military, martial, belligerent, bellicose
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "warlike":
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1126 | military | |
#1986 | cold | |
#3041 | competitive | |
#5680 | adverse | |
#6854 | martial | |
#7268 | warrior | |
#9085 | distant | |
#12170 | hostile | |
#20046 | militant | |
#24087 | indifferent | |
#27806 | contentious | |
#36720 | alienated | |
#40140 | unfriendly | |
#43129 | warring | |
#45446 | estranged | |
#49221 | antagonistic | |
#52117 | frigid | |
#55147 | belligerent | |
#60499 | unkind | |
#64070 | disaffected | |
#66269 | warlike | |
#88971 | inimical | |
#97072 | hawkish | |
#115380 | bellicose | |
#252555 | soldierly |
How to use warlike in a sentence?
Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugationthe last arguments to which kings resort.
I trained in the early 2000s, when there was not a single oral agent for the management of AML, one of my professors had told me that AML was akin to a warlike situation where sometimes, you had to bomb the village in order to save it. We would throw these drugs that would kill everything and hope patients would recover with normal bone marrow.
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
The best soldiers are not warlike.
Translations for warlike
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- bel·ligerant, bel·licósCatalan, Valencian
- πολεμοχαρής, θούριος, φιλοπόλεμος, πολεμικόςGreek
- militemaEsperanto
- guerrero, belicoso, beligeranteSpanish
- sotaisa, sotaintoinenFinnish
- belliqueuxFrench
- badhbhaIrish
- bellicosoItalian
- kaitauaMāori
- oorlogszuchtig, krijgshaftig, strijdlustigDutch
- beligerante, belicosoPortuguese
- враждебныйRussian
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