warlike

English

Etymology

From war +‎ -like.

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.

Antonyms

nonwarlike

Translations

belligerent

Belarusian: ваяўні́чы m (vajaŭníčy)
Catalan: bel·ligerant
Dutch: strijdlustig (nl), oorlogszuchtig (nl)
Esperanto: militema
Finnish: sotaisa (fi)
French: belliqueux (fr)
Greek: φιλοπόλεμος (el) m (filopólemos), πολεμοχαρής (el) m (polemocharís)
Ancient: πολεμικός (polemikós)
Irish: fearchonta, gaisciúil, treasach, tachrach (literary)
Italian: bellicoso (it)

Maori: kaitaua, kaikiri
Norwegian:
Bokmål: krigersk

Nynorsk: krigersk
Occitan: belligerant, guerrièr (oc)
Portuguese: beligerante (pt)
Russian: вражде́бный (ru) (vraždébnyj)
Spanish: guerrero (es), beligerante (es)
Turkish: savaşçıl

bellicose

Catalan: bel·licós
Dutch: krijgshaftig (nl), strijdlustig (nl)
Finnish: sotaisa (fi), sotaintoinen
French: belliqueux (fr)
Greek: θούριος (el) m (thoúrios), πολεμικός (el) m (polemikós)
Ancient: πολεμικός (polemikós)
Irish: ághmhar, anghlonnach, badhbha, cathach, cathartha, cogúil, draganta, ághdha (literary), ánrata (literary), éaglannach (literary), níothach (literary)
Old Irish: cathach

Italian: bellicoso (it)
Latin: bellifer
Maori: kaitaua, kaikiri
Occitan: bellicós (oc), querelós, batalhièr
Portuguese: belicoso (pt) m
Spanish: belicoso (es)
Turkish: savaşçıl

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