warlike

From war +‎ -like.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔɹlaɪk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːlaɪk/

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warlike (comparative more warlike, superlative most warlike)

1. Hostile and belligerent.
2. 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.

• nonwarlike