combative

comparative more combative · superlative most combative

1. Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.

   Their combative conduct leads to many problems.

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   He finds, not “demigods” but “a combative group of exhausted, drunken, broken, petty, partisan, scheming, squabbling, bloviating, sensory-deprived, underoxygenated, fed-up, talked-out, overheated delegates so distraught they threatened violence, secession.

   2013, The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy

   Salvation arrived - as it so often has in this nerve-shredding campaign - through Dykes, the combative striker.

   2021 October 12, Jamie Lyall, “Faroe Islands 0-1 Scotland”, in BBC Sport

   Synonyms: aggressive, antagonistic, assaultive, bellicose, belligerent, martial, militaristic, philopolemic