warlike
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɔɹlaɪk/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɔːlaɪk/
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Adjective
warlike (comparative more warlike, superlative most warlike)
- Hostile and belligerent.
- Martial, bellicose or militaristic.
- 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
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Antonyms
Translations
belligerent
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bellicose
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