Combative: alternatives and connections

Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation.

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Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation.

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Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse.

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Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse.

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Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination.

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Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination.

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Acting in competition; competing; rival.

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Acting in competition; competing; rival.

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To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

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To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

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The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.

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The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.

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The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute.

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The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute.

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Alt. of Agonistical

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Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural.

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Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.

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Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome.

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Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper.

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Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as, a disputative temper.

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Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation.

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