3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Combative \Com"bat*ive\ (? or ?), a. Disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: combative adj 1: striving to overcome in argument; "a dialectical and agonistic approach" [syn: {agonistic}, {agonistical}] 2: having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature" [syn: {battleful}, {bellicose}, {contentious}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 75 Moby Thesaurus words for "combative": aggressive, antagonistic, argumental, argumentative, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, chauvinist, chauvinistic, contentious, controversial, dialectic, disputatious, divisive, enemy, energetic, eristic, factional, factious, ferocious, fierce, fighting, full of fight, hawkish, hostile, ill-humored, inimical, irascible, irritable, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, litigious, logomachic, manful, manly, martial, militant, militaristic, military, offensive, on the offensive, partisan, pilpulistic, polarizing, polemic, pro and con, pugnacious, quarrelsome, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, shrewish, soldierlike, soldierly, strenuous, trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, vigorous, virile, warlike, warmongering, warring, wrangling
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