belligerent
IPA: bʌɫˈɪdʒɝʌnt
noun
- A state or other armed participant in warfare
adjective
- Engaged in warfare, warring.
- Eager to go to war, warlike.
- Of or pertaining to war.
- (by extension) Aggressively hostile, eager to fight.
- Acting violently towards others.
- Uncooperative.
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Examples of "belligerent" in Sentences
- The enemy is belligerent and hostile.
- The tone is accusatory and belligerent.
- The comments here are infamatory and belligerent.
- Hungary alike belligerent in the Napoleonic Wars.
- The USA and the UK recognized the CSA as a belligerent.
- It is the thought of one of the belligerents on the subject.
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