Related Words:
- aggressive
collapse - having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends; "an aggressive businessman"; "an aggressive basketball player"; "he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions"; "aggressive drivers"
- characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight; "aggressive acts against another country"; "a belligerent tone"
- tending to spread quickly; "an aggressive tumor" related words >
- abrupt,
- active,
- acute,
- adventuresome,
- adventurous,
- ambitious,
- animated,
- antagonistic,
- assertive,
- battling,
- bearish,
- beastly,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bickering,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- bold,
- brash,
- brisk,
- brusque,
- cavalier,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- churlish,
- combative,
- contentious,
- crusty,
- curt,
- disputatious,
- divisive,
- domineering,
- driving,
- dynamic,
- enemy,
- energetic,
- enterprising,
- enthusiastic,
- eristic,
- factional,
- factious,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fighting,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forward,
- full of fight,
- full of pep,
- go-ahead,
- go-go,
- gruff,
- hard-hitting,
- harsh,
- hawkish,
- hearty,
- hostile,
- hustling,
- imperious,
- impetuous,
- incisive,
- inimical,
- intense,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- keen,
- kinetic,
- litigious,
- lively,
- living,
- lusty,
- martial,
- masterful,
- mettlesome,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- offensive,
- on the offensive,
- partisan,
- peppy,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- pugnacious,
- pushful,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- quarrelsome,
- robust,
- rough,
- saber-rattling,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- scrappy,
- self-assertive,
- severe,
- sharp,
- short,
- shrewish,
- smacking,
- snappy,
- snippy,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- spanking,
- spirited,
- strenuous,
- strong,
- surly,
- take-charge,
- take-over,
- tough,
- trenchant,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- unfriendly,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- up-and-coming,
- venturesome,
- venturous,
- vibrant,
- vigorous,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wrangling,
- zestful,
- zesty,
- zippy
- Chinese boxing,
- Kilkenny cats,
- aggressive,
- all-out war,
- altercation,
- antagonistic,
- appeal to arms,
- argument,
- armed combat,
- armed conflict,
- attack,
- battle,
- battling,
- bellicose,
- belligerence,
- belligerency,
- belligerent,
- bickering,
- bloodshed,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- bout,
- boxing,
- boxing match,
- cat-and-dog life,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- close fighting,
- combat,
- combative,
- conflict,
- contending,
- contention,
- contentious,
- contentiousness,
- contest,
- contestant,
- contestation,
- contesting,
- controversy,
- cut and thrust,
- debate,
- disputant,
- disputation,
- dispute,
- enemy,
- enmity,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fisticuffs,
- full of fight,
- hawkish,
- hostile,
- hostilities,
- hostility,
- hot war,
- infighting,
- inimical,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- la guerre,
- litigation,
- logomachy,
- martial,
- might of arms,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- military operations,
- offensive,
- open hostilities,
- open war,
- paper war,
- polemic,
- prizefight,
- prizefighting,
- pugilism,
- pugnacious,
- quarrel,
- quarreling,
- quarrelsome,
- quarrelsomeness,
- resort to arms,
- saber-rattling,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- savate,
- scrapping,
- scrappy,
- shadowboxing,
- shooting war,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- spar,
- squabbling,
- state of war,
- strife,
- striving,
- struggle,
- struggling,
- the clinches,
- the fights,
- the ring,
- the sword,
- total war,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- unfriendly,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- war,
- war of words,
- warfare,
- warlike,
- warmaking,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wartime,
- words,
- wrangling
- antagonism,
- antipathy,
- averseness,
- aversion,
- backlash,
- backwardness,
- bad blood,
- challenge,
- clashing,
- collision,
- combative reaction,
- competition,
- complaint,
- conflict,
- confutation,
- contempt,
- contradiction,
- contraposition,
- contrariety,
- contrariness,
- contumaciousness,
- contumacy,
- counteraction,
- counterposition,
- counterworking,
- crankiness,
- cross-purposes,
- crotchetiness,
- cursoriness,
- defiance,
- defiance of authority,
- demur,
- despite,
- deviation,
- disaccord,
- disaccordance,
- disagreement,
- disconformity,
- disinclination,
- disobedience,
- dispute,
- disrelish,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissentience,
- distaste,
- enmity,
- foot-dragging,
- fractiousness,
- friction,
- grudging consent,
- grudgingness,
- hostility,
- inaccordance,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- incorrigibility,
- indisposedness,
- indisposition,
- indocility,
- indomitability,
- inimicalness,
- insuppressibility,
- interference,
- intractability,
- intractableness,
- irrepressibility,
- kick,
- lack of enthusiasm,
- lack of zeal,
- mutinousness,
- negativeness,
- negativism,
- nolition,
- noncompliance,
- nonconcurrence,
- nonconformance,
- nonconformism,
- nonconformity,
- noncooperation,
- nonobservance,
- objection,
- obstinacy,
- obstreperousness,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- oppugnance,
- oppugnancy,
- originality,
- orneriness,
- passive resistance,
- perfunctoriness,
- perverseness,
- protest,
- reaction,
- rebuff,
- recalcitrancy,
- recalcitration,
- recoil,
- recusance,
- recusancy,
- refractoriness,
- refusal,
- reluctance,
- remonstrance,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- repellence,
- repellency,
- repercussion,
- repugnance,
- repulse,
- repulsion,
- resistance,
- restiveness,
- revolt,
- rivalry,
- shrewishness,
- slowness,
- stand,
- stubbornness,
- sulk,
- sulkiness,
- sulks,
- sullenness,
- swimming upstream,
- unconformity,
- uncontrollability,
- uncooperativeness,
- unenthusiasm,
- ungovernability,
- unmalleability,
- unmanageability,
- unmoldableness,
- unruliness,
- unsubmissiveness,
- untamableness,
- unwillingness,
- vying,
- wildness,
- withstanding
- Kilkenny cats,
- aflicker,
- aggressive,
- aggressiveness,
- altercation,
- apologetics,
- apologia,
- apology,
- argument,
- argumentation,
- bellicose,
- bellicosity,
- belligerence,
- belligerent,
- bicker,
- blinking,
- boggling,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- casuistry,
- cat-and-dog life,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- choplogic,
- combat,
- combative,
- combativeness,
- conflict,
- contention,
- contentiousness,
- contest,
- contestation,
- controversy,
- cut and thrust,
- dancing,
- debate,
- defense,
- disputation,
- disputatious,
- dispute,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissidence,
- divisive,
- dodging,
- embroilment,
- enmity,
- equivocation,
- equivocatory,
- eristic,
- evasion,
- evasive,
- faction,
- factional,
- factious,
- factiousness,
- fencing,
- fighting,
- flak,
- flashing,
- flickering,
- flickery,
- flicky,
- fluttering,
- fluttery,
- flyting,
- hairsplitting,
- hassle,
- hedging,
- hostility,
- hubbub,
- infighting,
- irascibility,
- irascible,
- irritability,
- irritable,
- lambent,
- litigation,
- litigious,
- litigiousness,
- logic-chopping,
- logomachy,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- paper war,
- parrying,
- partisan,
- partisan spirit,
- partisanship,
- passage of arms,
- pettifoggery,
- petty,
- picayune,
- playing,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- polemics,
- prevarication,
- pugnacious,
- pugnacity,
- pussyfooting,
- quarrel,
- quarreling,
- quarrelsome,
- quarrelsomeness,
- quibbling,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- rhubarb,
- row,
- run-in,
- scrapping,
- set-to,
- shifting,
- shrewish,
- shrewishness,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- spat,
- squabble,
- squabbling,
- strife,
- stroboscopic,
- struggle,
- subterfuge,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- verbal engagement,
- war,
- war of words,
- warfare,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- words,
- wrangle,
- wrangling
- ferocious
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- marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" related words >
- Draconian,
- Tartarean,
- abandoned,
- aggressive,
- amok,
- animal,
- antagonistic,
- anthropophagous,
- atrocious,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- battling,
- beastly,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bellowing,
- berserk,
- bestial,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- brutal,
- brutalized,
- brute,
- brutish,
- cannibalistic,
- carried away,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- combative,
- contentious,
- cruel,
- cruel-hearted,
- delirious,
- demoniac,
- demoniacal,
- destructive,
- devilish,
- diabolic,
- diabolical,
- distracted,
- ecstatic,
- enemy,
- enraptured,
- fell,
- feral,
- ferine,
- fiendish,
- fiendlike,
- fierce,
- fighting,
- frantic,
- frenzied,
- full of fight,
- fulminating,
- furious,
- grim,
- haggard,
- hawkish,
- hellish,
- hog-wild,
- hostile,
- howling,
- hysterical,
- implacable,
- in a transport,
- in hysterics,
- infernal,
- inhuman,
- inhumane,
- inimical,
- intoxicated,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- kill-crazy,
- mad,
- madding,
- malign,
- malignant,
- maniac,
- martial,
- merciless,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- monstrous,
- murderous,
- noncivilized,
- offensive,
- orgasmic,
- orgiastic,
- pitiless,
- possessed,
- predatory,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- rabid,
- raging,
- ramping,
- ranting,
- rapacious,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- raving,
- ravished,
- relentless,
- roaring,
- running mad,
- ruthless,
- saber-rattling,
- sadistic,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- satanic,
- savage,
- scrappy,
- sharkish,
- slavering,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- storming,
- subhuman,
- tameless,
- transported,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- unchristian,
- uncivilized,
- uncontrollable,
- unfriendly,
- ungentle,
- unhuman,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- untamed,
- vicious,
- violent,
- voracious,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wild,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking,
- wolfish
- adversary,
- adversative,
- adverse,
- adversive,
- aggressive,
- alien,
- antagonistic,
- anti,
- antipathetic,
- antithetic,
- antonymous,
- at cross-purposes,
- balancing,
- battling,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- breakaway,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- chill,
- chilly,
- clashing,
- cold,
- combative,
- compensating,
- competitive,
- con,
- conflicting,
- confronting,
- contentious,
- contradicting,
- contradictory,
- contradistinct,
- contrapositive,
- contrarious,
- contrary,
- contrasted,
- converse,
- cool,
- counter,
- counteractant,
- counteracting,
- counteractive,
- counterbalancing,
- counterpoised,
- countervailing,
- counterworking,
- cranky,
- cross,
- crotchety,
- dead against,
- detrimental,
- difficult,
- disaccordant,
- discordant,
- discrepant,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- enemy,
- eyeball to eyeball,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fighting,
- fractious,
- frosty,
- full of fight,
- hard,
- harmful,
- hawkish,
- hostile,
- icy,
- ill,
- in opposition,
- incompatible,
- inconsistent,
- inhospitable,
- inverse,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- martial,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- miserable,
- negative,
- nonconformist,
- noncooperative,
- not easy,
- obstinate,
- obverse,
- offensive,
- opponent,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- oppositional,
- oppositive,
- oppugnant,
- overthwart,
- perverse,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- reactionary,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- renitent,
- repugnant,
- resistant,
- reverse,
- revolutionary,
- rigorous,
- rival,
- saber-rattling,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- scrappy,
- sinister,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- squared off,
- strained,
- stressful,
- tense,
- trigger-happy,
- troublesome,
- troublous,
- truculent,
- trying,
- unamiable,
- unamicable,
- uncooperative,
- uncordial,
- unfavorable,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unharmonious,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- unpropitious,
- unsociable,
- untoward,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wretched
- belligerent
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- engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations"; "a fighting war" related words >
- acrid,
- aggressive,
- antagonist,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- ardent,
- argumental,
- argumentative,
- attacking,
- battler,
- battling,
- bellicose,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- bickering,
- bitter,
- blade,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- cat-and-dog,
- cat-and-doggish,
- caustic,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- clashing,
- colliding,
- combatant,
- combative,
- competitor,
- conflicting,
- contender,
- contentious,
- contestant,
- controversial,
- despiteful,
- disputant,
- disputatious,
- divisive,
- duelist,
- enemy,
- enforcer,
- eristic,
- factional,
- factious,
- fencer,
- ferocious,
- feuder,
- fierce,
- fighter,
- fighting,
- fighting cock,
- foilsman,
- full of fight,
- full of hate,
- gamecock,
- gladiator,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- hatchet man,
- hateful,
- hawk,
- hawkish,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- hostile,
- hot,
- inimical,
- invading,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- jouster,
- knight,
- litigious,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malignant,
- martial,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- offensive,
- partisan,
- plug-ugly,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- pugnacious,
- quarreler,
- quarrelsome,
- rancorous,
- repugnant,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rough,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- saber-rattling,
- sabreur,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- scrapper,
- scrappy,
- scuffler,
- set against,
- shrewish,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- sore,
- spiteful,
- squabbler,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- tempered,
- thug,
- tilter,
- tough,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- tussler,
- unfriendly,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- venomous,
- virulent,
- vitriolic,
- warlike,
- warmonger,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wrangler,
- wrangling
- scrappy
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- full of fighting spirit; "a scrappy admiral" related words >
- aggressive,
- antagonistic,
- argumental,
- argumentative,
- arrested,
- battling,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- brawling,
- broken,
- broken off,
- callow,
- capricious,
- careening,
- cat-and-dog,
- cat-and-doggish,
- catchy,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- chopped-off,
- choppy,
- combative,
- contentious,
- controversial,
- decousu,
- defective,
- deficient,
- desultory,
- deviative,
- disconnected,
- discontinued,
- discontinuous,
- discrete,
- disjunctive,
- disputatious,
- eccentric,
- embryonic,
- enemy,
- episodic,
- erratic,
- failing,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fighting,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- fluctuating,
- full of fight,
- guttering,
- halting,
- hawkish,
- herky-jerky,
- heteroclite,
- hostile,
- hypoplastic,
- immature,
- immethodical,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in short supply,
- inadequate,
- incoherent,
- incomplete,
- inconstant,
- infant,
- inimical,
- intermittent,
- intermitting,
- interrupted,
- irregular,
- jagged,
- jerky,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- lacking,
- litigious,
- lurching,
- martial,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- missing,
- needing,
- noncontinuous,
- nonlinear,
- nonsequential,
- nonserial,
- nonuniform,
- offensive,
- parenthetic,
- part,
- partial,
- patchy,
- polemic,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- rambling,
- rough,
- saber-rattling,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- scant,
- scanty,
- short,
- shy,
- sketchy,
- snatchy,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- staggering,
- suspended,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- uncertain,
- unconnected,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unfriendly,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unmetrical,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- unregular,
- unrhythmical,
- unsettled,
- unsteady,
- unsuccessive,
- unsystematic,
- variable,
- veering,
- wandering,
- wanting,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wavering,
- wobbling,
- wobbly
- objection
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- (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality
- the speech act of objecting related words >
- answer,
- antipathy,
- argument,
- ban,
- bashfulness,
- beef,
- bitch,
- blackball,
- blackballing,
- block,
- blockade,
- boggle,
- boggling,
- bottleneck,
- boycott,
- catch,
- challenge,
- combative reaction,
- complaint,
- compunction,
- cordon,
- counteraction,
- counterstatement,
- curtain,
- defense,
- defiance,
- demonstration,
- demur,
- demurral,
- demurrer,
- denial,
- determent,
- deterrent,
- difficulty,
- diffidence,
- dim view,
- disagreement,
- disappointment,
- disapprobation,
- disapproval,
- discontent,
- discontentedness,
- discontentment,
- disenchantment,
- disesteem,
- disfavor,
- disgruntlement,
- disillusion,
- disillusionment,
- dislike,
- displeasure,
- dispute,
- disrespect,
- dissatisfaction,
- dissent,
- dissentience,
- distaste,
- doubt,
- drawback,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- expostulation,
- falter,
- faltering,
- fractiousness,
- grievance,
- grievance committee,
- hang-up,
- hazard,
- hesitance,
- hesitancy,
- hesitation,
- hitch,
- howl,
- hurdle,
- indignation,
- indignation meeting,
- interference,
- joker,
- kick,
- low estimation,
- low opinion,
- march,
- modesty,
- negativism,
- noncooperation,
- nonviolent protest,
- obstacle,
- obstinacy,
- obstruction,
- obstructive,
- one small difficulty,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- ostracism,
- passive resistance,
- pause,
- picketing,
- plea,
- pleading,
- protest,
- protest demonstration,
- protestation,
- qualm,
- qualm of conscience,
- qualmishness,
- question,
- rally,
- reaction,
- rebuff,
- rebuttal,
- recalcitrance,
- recalcitrancy,
- recalcitration,
- recoil,
- refractoriness,
- refusal,
- refutation,
- rejection,
- reluctance,
- remonstrance,
- remonstration,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- repellence,
- repellency,
- reply,
- repulse,
- repulsion,
- resistance,
- response,
- revolt,
- riposte,
- rub,
- scruple,
- scrupulosity,
- scrupulousness,
- shrinking,
- shyness,
- sit-in,
- snag,
- special demurrer,
- special pleading,
- squawk,
- stand,
- statement of defense,
- stickling,
- strike,
- stumbling block,
- stumbling stone,
- teach-in,
- thumbs-down,
- uncooperativeness,
- unhappiness,
- withstanding
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