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warpath
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a course leading to warfare or battle
hostile or belligerent mood; "the chief is on the warpath today"
related words >
aggression
,
aggressiveness
,
antagonism
,
bellicism
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
belligerency
,
chauvinism
,
combativeness
,
contentiousness
,
ferocity
,
fierceness
,
fight
,
hostility
,
jingoism
,
martialism
,
militancy
,
militarism
,
pugnaciousness
,
pugnacity
,
quarrelsomeness
,
saber rattling
,
truculence
,
unfriendliness
,
unpeacefulness
,
warmongering
warmongering
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a policy of advocating war
related words >
aggression
,
aggressiveness
,
antagonism
,
bellicism
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
belligerency
,
chauvinism
,
combativeness
,
contentiousness
,
ferocity
,
fierceness
,
fight
,
hostility
,
jingoism
,
martialism
,
militancy
,
militarism
,
pugnaciousness
,
pugnacity
,
quarrelsomeness
,
saber rattling
,
truculence
,
unfriendliness
,
unpeacefulness
,
warpath
militancy
collapse
related words >
action
,
activeness
,
activism
,
activity
,
aggression
,
aggressiveness
,
antagonism
,
bellicism
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
belligerency
,
business
,
chauvinism
,
combativeness
,
contentiousness
,
doings
,
fight
,
goings-on
,
hostility
,
jingoism
,
martialism
,
militarism
,
motion
,
movement
,
political activism
,
proceedings
,
pugnaciousness
,
pugnacity
,
quarrelsomeness
,
saber rattling
,
stir
,
truculence
,
unfriendliness
,
unpeacefulness
,
warmongering
,
warpath
infighting
collapse
related words >
Chinese boxing
,
aggressiveness
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
bickering
,
bout
,
boxing
,
boxing match
,
close fighting
,
combativeness
,
contentiousness
,
dissension
,
dissent
,
dissidence
,
faction
,
factiousness
,
fighting
,
fisticuffs
,
flak
,
irascibility
,
irritability
,
litigiousness
,
partisan spirit
,
partisanship
,
prizefight
,
prizefighting
,
pugilism
,
pugnacity
,
quarrelsomeness
,
savate
,
shadowboxing
,
shrewishness
,
spar
,
the clinches
,
the fights
,
the ring
jingoism
collapse
related words >
Americanism
,
Anglicism
,
Briticism
,
aggression
,
aggressiveness
,
antagonism
,
bellicism
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
belligerency
,
chauvinism
,
combativeness
,
contentiousness
,
ferocity
,
fierceness
,
fight
,
flag waving
,
flag-waving
,
hostility
,
love of country
,
martialism
,
militancy
,
militarism
,
nationalism
,
nationality
,
overpatriotism
,
patriotics
,
patriotism
,
pugnaciousness
,
pugnacity
,
quarrelsomeness
,
saber rattling
,
superpatriotism
,
truculence
,
ultranationalism
,
unfriendliness
,
unpeacefulness
,
warmongering
,
warpath
saber rattling
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the ostentatious display of military power (with the implied threat that it might be used)
related words >
aggression
,
aggressiveness
,
antagonism
,
bellicism
,
bellicose
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
belligerency
,
bulldozing
,
chauvinism
,
combativeness
,
commination
,
contentiousness
,
denunciation
,
empty threat
,
ferocity
,
fierceness
,
fight
,
foreboding
,
hostility
,
idle threat
,
imminence
,
implied threat
,
intimidate
,
intimidation
,
jingoism
,
martialism
,
menace
,
militancy
,
militarism
,
promise of harm
,
pugnaciousness
,
pugnacity
,
quarrelsomeness
,
sword of Damocles
,
threat
,
threateningness
,
threatfulness
,
truculence
,
unfriendliness
,
unpeacefulness
,
warmongering
,
warning
,
warpath
ferocity
collapse
the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
related words >
aggression
,
aggressiveness
,
animality
,
antagonism
,
atrociousness
,
barbarity
,
barbarousness
,
beastliness
,
bellicism
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
belligerency
,
bestiality
,
bloodiness
,
bloodlust
,
bloodthirst
,
bloodthirstiness
,
bloody-mindedness
,
brutality
,
brutalness
,
brutishness
,
cannibalism
,
chauvinism
,
combativeness
,
contentiousness
,
cruelness
,
cruelty
,
ferociousness
,
fiendishness
,
fierceness
,
fight
,
hostility
,
inhumaneness
,
inhumanity
,
jingoism
,
martialism
,
militancy
,
militarism
,
pugnaciousness
,
pugnacity
,
quarrelsomeness
,
ruthlessness
,
saber rattling
,
sadism
,
sadistic cruelty
,
sanguineousness
,
savagery
,
truculence
,
unfriendliness
,
unpeacefulness
,
vandalism
,
viciousness
,
violence
,
wanton cruelty
,
warmongering
,
warpath
unfriendliness
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an unfriendly disposition
dislike experienced as an absence of friendliness
related words >
aggression
,
aggressiveness
,
antagonism
,
autism
,
bashfulness
,
bellicism
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
belligerency
,
chauvinism
,
chill
,
chilliness
,
coldness
,
combativeness
,
contentiousness
,
coolness
,
disaffinity
,
dissociability
,
enmity
,
ferocity
,
fierceness
,
fight
,
frost
,
hostility
,
iciness
,
incompatibility
,
incompatibleness
,
inhospitableness
,
inhospitality
,
inimicality
,
insociability
,
jingoism
,
martialism
,
militancy
,
militarism
,
mopishness
,
moroseness
,
nonwelcome
,
personal conflict
,
pugnaciousness
,
pugnacity
,
quarrelsomeness
,
saber rattling
,
self-containment
,
self-sufficiency
,
social incompatibility
,
strain
,
sullenness
,
tension
,
truculence
,
unamiability
,
uncommunicativeness
,
uncompanionability
,
uncongeniality
,
uncordiality
,
ungeniality
,
ungraciousness
,
ungregariousness
,
unhospitableness
,
unneighborliness
,
unpeacefulness
,
unreceptiveness
,
unsociability
,
unsociableness
,
warmongering
,
warpath
irascibility
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a feeling of resentful anger
related words >
aggressiveness
,
agitability
,
bearishness
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
bickering
,
bitchiness
,
cantankerousness
,
churlishness
,
combativeness
,
combustibility
,
contentiousness
,
contrariness
,
crabbedness
,
crankiness
,
crossness
,
crustiness
,
cussedness
,
difficultness
,
disagreeability
,
dissension
,
dissent
,
dissidence
,
dourness
,
edginess
,
emotional instability
,
emotionalism
,
eruptiveness
,
excitability
,
excitableness
,
explosiveness
,
faction
,
factiousness
,
flak
,
fractiousness
,
frowardness
,
huffiness
,
huffishness
,
infighting
,
inflammability
,
irritability
,
latent violence
,
litigiousness
,
meanness
,
nervousness
,
orneriness
,
partisan spirit
,
partisanship
,
perturbability
,
perverseness
,
perversite
,
perversity
,
prickliness
,
pugnacity
,
quarrelsomeness
,
sensitivity
,
shrewishness
,
skittishness
,
snappishness
,
startlishness
,
stuffiness
,
sulkiness
,
sullenness
,
tempestuousness
,
testiness
,
touchiness
,
ugliness
,
violence
,
waspishness
,
waywardness
,
wrongheadedness
truculence
collapse
obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness
related words >
abruptness
,
aggression
,
aggressiveness
,
animality
,
antagonism
,
atrociousness
,
barbarity
,
barbarousness
,
bearishness
,
beastliness
,
bellicism
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
belligerency
,
bestiality
,
bloodiness
,
bloodlust
,
bloodthirst
,
bloodthirstiness
,
bloody-mindedness
,
bluntness
,
boorishness
,
brashness
,
brusqueness
,
brusquerie
,
brutality
,
brutalness
,
brutishness
,
cannibalism
,
chauvinism
,
churlishness
,
combativeness
,
contentiousness
,
cruelness
,
cruelty
,
crustiness
,
curtness
,
ferociousness
,
ferocity
,
fiendishness
,
fierceness
,
fight
,
gruffness
,
harshness
,
hostility
,
inhumaneness
,
inhumanity
,
jingoism
,
martialism
,
militancy
,
militarism
,
nastiness
,
pugnaciousness
,
pugnacity
,
quarrelsomeness
,
roughness
,
ruthlessness
,
saber rattling
,
sadism
,
sadistic cruelty
,
sanguineousness
,
savagery
,
severity
,
sharpness
,
shortness
,
surliness
,
unfriendliness
,
unpeacefulness
,
vandalism
,
viciousness
,
violence
,
wanton cruelty
,
warmongering
,
warpath
dissidence
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disagreement; especially disagreement with the government
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aggressiveness
,
agreement to disagree
,
alienation
,
antagonism
,
apostasy
,
argumentation
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
bickering
,
clashing
,
combativeness
,
conflict
,
contention
,
contentiousness
,
contradiction
,
controversy
,
counter-culture
,
difference
,
disaccord
,
disaccordance
,
disagreement
,
disapprobation
,
disapproval
,
discord
,
discordance
,
discordancy
,
discrepancy
,
disharmony
,
disparity
,
dissatisfaction
,
dissension
,
dissent
,
dissentience
,
dissonance
,
disunion
,
disunity
,
divergence
,
diversity
,
dropping out
,
faction
,
factiousness
,
flak
,
heterodoxy
,
inaccordance
,
inequality
,
infighting
,
irascibility
,
irritability
,
jarring
,
litigiousness
,
minority opinion
,
misbelief
,
negation
,
nonagreement
,
nonassent
,
nonconcurrence
,
nonconformism
,
nonconformity
,
nonconsent
,
opposition
,
oppugnancy
,
partisan spirit
,
partisanship
,
pugnacity
,
quarrelsomeness
,
recusance
,
recusancy
,
rejection
,
repudiation
,
repugnance
,
schism
,
secession
,
shrewishness
,
strife
,
underground
,
unharmoniousness
,
unorthodoxy
,
variance
,
withdrawal
belligerence
collapse
hostile or warlike attitude or nature
related words >
aggression
,
aggressiveness
,
all-out war
,
antagonism
,
antipathy
,
appeal to arms
,
argumentativeness
,
armed combat
,
armed conflict
,
attack
,
battle
,
bellicism
,
bellicosity
,
belligerency
,
bickering
,
bloodshed
,
chauvinism
,
clash
,
clashing
,
collision
,
combat
,
combativeness
,
conflict
,
contention
,
contentiousness
,
despitefulness
,
disputatiousness
,
dissension
,
dissent
,
dissidence
,
faction
,
factiousness
,
ferocity
,
fierceness
,
fight
,
fighting
,
flak
,
friction
,
hate
,
hatred
,
hostilities
,
hostility
,
hot war
,
infighting
,
irascibility
,
irritability
,
jingoism
,
la guerre
,
litigiousness
,
malevolence
,
malice
,
malignity
,
martialism
,
might of arms
,
militancy
,
militarism
,
military operations
,
open hostilities
,
open war
,
partisan spirit
,
partisanship
,
pugnaciousness
,
pugnacity
,
quarrelsomeness
,
repugnance
,
resort to arms
,
saber rattling
,
shooting war
,
shrewishness
,
spite
,
spitefulness
,
state of war
,
the sword
,
total war
,
truculence
,
unfriendliness
,
unpeacefulness
,
war
,
warfare
,
warmaking
,
warmongering
,
warpath
,
warring
,
wartime
chauvinism
collapse
fanatical patriotism
related words >
Americanism
,
Anglicism
,
Briticism
,
Jim Crow
,
Jim Crow law
,
aggression
,
aggressiveness
,
antagonism
,
anti-Semitism
,
apartheid
,
bellicism
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
belligerency
,
black power
,
black supremacy
,
class consciousness
,
class distinction
,
class hatred
,
class prejudice
,
class war
,
color bar
,
color line
,
combativeness
,
contentiousness
,
discrimination
,
fascism
,
ferocity
,
fierceness
,
fight
,
flag waving
,
hostility
,
jingoism
,
know-nothingism
,
love of country
,
male chauvinist
,
martialism
,
militancy
,
militarism
,
minority prejudice
,
nationalism
,
nationality
,
overpatriotism
,
patriotics
,
patriotism
,
pugnaciousness
,
pugnacity
,
quarrelsomeness
,
race hatred
,
race prejudice
,
race snobbery
,
racial discrimination
,
racialism
,
racism
,
red-baiting
,
saber rattling
,
segregation
,
sex discrimination
,
sexism
,
social barrier
,
social discrimination
,
superpatriotism
,
truculence
,
ultranationalism
,
unfriendliness
,
unpeacefulness
,
warmongering
,
warpath
,
white power
,
white supremacy
,
xenophobia
dissension
collapse
related words >
aggressiveness
,
agreement to disagree
,
alienation
,
altercation
,
antagonism
,
antipathy
,
apostasy
,
argument
,
argumentation
,
bad blood
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
bickering
,
clashing
,
collision
,
combativeness
,
competition
,
conflict
,
contention
,
contentiousness
,
contradiction
,
contrariety
,
contrariness
,
controversy
,
counter-culture
,
cross-purposes
,
difference
,
disaccord
,
disaccordance
,
disagreement
,
disapprobation
,
disapproval
,
discord
,
discordance
,
discordancy
,
discrepancy
,
disharmony
,
disparity
,
dispute
,
dissatisfaction
,
dissent
,
dissentience
,
dissidence
,
dissonance
,
disunion
,
disunity
,
divergence
,
diversity
,
dropping out
,
enmity
,
faction
,
factiousness
,
flak
,
fractiousness
,
friction
,
hostility
,
inaccordance
,
inequality
,
infighting
,
inimicalness
,
irascibility
,
irritability
,
jarring
,
litigiousness
,
minority opinion
,
negation
,
negativeness
,
nonagreement
,
nonassent
,
nonconcurrence
,
nonconformity
,
nonconsent
,
noncooperation
,
obstinacy
,
opposition
,
oppugnancy
,
partisan spirit
,
partisanship
,
perverseness
,
pugnacity
,
quarrel
,
quarrelsomeness
,
recalcitrance
,
recusance
,
recusancy
,
refractoriness
,
rejection
,
repudiation
,
repugnance
,
rivalry
,
secession
,
shrewishness
,
strife
,
uncooperativeness
,
underground
,
unharmoniousness
,
variance
,
vying
,
withdrawal
,
wrangle
aggression
collapse
violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
deliberately unfriendly behavior
the act of initiating hostilities
a disposition to behave aggressively
a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack
related words >
adventuresomeness
,
adventurousness
,
aggravated assault
,
aggressiveness
,
ambitiousness
,
amphibious attack
,
antagonism
,
armed assault
,
assailing
,
assailment
,
assault
,
attack
,
banzai attack
,
bellicism
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
belligerency
,
blitz
,
blitzkrieg
,
breakthrough
,
charge
,
chauvinism
,
combativeness
,
contentiousness
,
counterattack
,
counteroffensive
,
coup de main
,
crippling attack
,
dead set at
,
descent on
,
diversion
,
diversionary attack
,
drive
,
dynamism
,
encroachment
,
enterprise
,
enterprisingness
,
ferocity
,
fierceness
,
fight
,
flank attack
,
force
,
forcefulness
,
frontal attack
,
gas attack
,
get-up-and-get
,
get-up-and-go
,
getup
,
go
,
go-ahead
,
go-getting
,
go-to-itiveness
,
gumption
,
head-on attack
,
hostility
,
hustle
,
incursion
,
infiltration
,
initiative
,
inroad
,
invasion
,
irruption
,
jingoism
,
lightning attack
,
lightning war
,
martialism
,
mass attack
,
megadeath
,
militancy
,
militarism
,
mugging
,
offense
,
offensive
,
onset
,
onslaught
,
overkill
,
panzer warfare
,
pugnaciousness
,
pugnacity
,
push
,
pushfulness
,
pushiness
,
pushingness
,
quarrelsomeness
,
raid
,
run against
,
run at
,
rush
,
saber rattling
,
sally
,
shock tactics
,
sortie
,
spirit
,
spunk
,
strike
,
truculence
,
unfriendliness
,
unpeacefulness
,
unprovoked assault
,
up-and-comingness
,
venturesomeness
,
venturousness
,
warmongering
,
warpath
flak
collapse
related words >
abuse
,
adverse criticism
,
aggressiveness
,
animadversion
,
antiaircraft fire
,
artillery
,
aspersion
,
bad notices
,
bad press
,
battery
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
bickering
,
blame
,
cannon
,
cannonry
,
captiousness
,
carping
,
cavil
,
caviling
,
censoriousness
,
censure
,
coast artillery
,
combativeness
,
complaints
,
condemnation
,
contentiousness
,
criticism
,
cross fire
,
curtain fire
,
direct fire
,
disapprobation
,
disapproval
,
dissension
,
dissent
,
dissidence
,
dry fire
,
exception
,
faction
,
factiousness
,
faultfinding
,
field artillery
,
file fire
,
fire
,
fire of demolition
,
firepower
,
fireworks
,
firing
,
flack
,
ground fire
,
gunfight
,
gunfire
,
gunplay
,
hairsplitting
,
heavy field artillery
,
high-angle fire
,
hit
,
home thrust
,
horizontal fire
,
hostile criticism
,
hypercriticalness
,
hypercriticism
,
imputation
,
infighting
,
interdiction fire
,
irascibility
,
irritability
,
knock
,
litigiousness
,
machine-gun fire
,
mortar fire
,
musketry
,
nagging
,
niggle
,
niggling
,
nit
,
nit-picking
,
obloquy
,
ordnance
,
overcriticalness
,
partisan spirit
,
partisanship
,
percussion fire
,
pestering
,
pettifogging
,
pistol fire
,
priggishness
,
pugnacity
,
quarrelsomeness
,
quibble
,
quibbling
,
raking fire
,
rap
,
rapid fire
,
reflection
,
reproachfulness
,
ricochet fire
,
rifle fire
,
shellfire
,
shoot-out
,
shooting
,
shrewishness
,
siege artillery
,
siege engine
,
slam
,
stricture
,
swipe
,
taking exception
,
time fire
,
trench artillery
,
trichoschistism
,
vertical fire
,
zone fire
antagonism
collapse
(biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure
an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility
the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors; "the inherent antagonism of capitalism and socialism"
related words >
abhorrence
,
abomination
,
aggression
,
aggressiveness
,
allergy
,
animosity
,
animus
,
annulling
,
antipathy
,
antithesis
,
argumentation
,
aversion
,
backlash
,
bad blood
,
bellicism
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
belligerency
,
chauvinism
,
clash
,
clashing
,
cold sweat
,
collision
,
combativeness
,
competition
,
con
,
conflict
,
confrontation
,
confutation
,
contention
,
contentiousness
,
contradiction
,
contradistinction
,
contraindication
,
contraposition
,
contrariety
,
contrariness
,
contrast
,
controversy
,
counteraction
,
counterposition
,
counterworking
,
crankiness
,
creeping flesh
,
cross-purposes
,
crotchetiness
,
despitefulness
,
difference
,
disaccord
,
disaccordance
,
disagreement
,
discord
,
discordance
,
discordancy
,
discrepancy
,
disgust
,
disharmony
,
disparity
,
dissension
,
dissent
,
dissidence
,
dissonance
,
disunion
,
disunity
,
divergence
,
diversity
,
enmity
,
faction
,
ferocity
,
fierceness
,
fight
,
fractiousness
,
friction
,
hate
,
hatred
,
horror
,
hostility
,
inaccordance
,
incongruity
,
inconsistency
,
inequality
,
inimicalness
,
interference
,
jarring
,
jingoism
,
kick
,
loathing
,
malevolence
,
malice
,
malignity
,
martialism
,
militancy
,
militarism
,
mortal horror
,
nausea
,
negation
,
negativeness
,
nonconformity
,
noncooperation
,
nullification
,
obstinacy
,
oppositeness
,
opposition
,
opposure
,
oppugnance
,
oppugnancy
,
perverseness
,
perversity
,
polarity
,
pugnaciousness
,
pugnacity
,
quarrelsomeness
,
rancor
,
reaction
,
recalcitrance
,
recoil
,
refractoriness
,
renitency
,
repercussion
,
repugnance
,
repulsion
,
resistance
,
revolt
,
rivalry
,
saber rattling
,
showdown
,
shuddering
,
spite
,
spitefulness
,
strife
,
swimming upstream
,
truculence
,
uncooperativeness
,
unfriendliness
,
unharmoniousness
,
unpeacefulness
,
variance
,
vying
,
warmongering
,
warpath
,
withstanding
bickering
collapse
related words >
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
hostility
collapse
a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition; "he could not conceal his hostility"
the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility"
a state of deep-seated ill-will
related words >
Kilkenny cats
,
abhorrence
,
abomination
,
action
,
aggression
,
aggressiveness
,
allergy
,
altercation
,
animosity
,
animus
,
antagonism
,
anteposition
,
antipathy
,
antithesis
,
argument
,
aversion
,
bad blood
,
bad feeling
,
bellicism
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
belligerency
,
bickering
,
bloodshed
,
cat-and-dog life
,
chauvinism
,
clash
,
clashing
,
cold sweat
,
collision
,
combat
,
combativeness
,
competition
,
conflict
,
confrontation
,
confrontment
,
contention
,
contentiousness
,
contest
,
contestation
,
contradiction
,
contradistinction
,
contraindication
,
contraposition
,
contrariety
,
contrariness
,
contrast
,
controversy
,
counterposition
,
creeping flesh
,
cross-purposes
,
cut and thrust
,
debate
,
despitefulness
,
disaccord
,
disaffinity
,
disagreement
,
discrepancy
,
disgust
,
disputation
,
dispute
,
dissension
,
enmity
,
ferocity
,
fierceness
,
fight
,
fighting
,
fractiousness
,
friction
,
hard feelings
,
hardheartedness
,
hate
,
hatred
,
horror
,
hostilities
,
ill will
,
immediate dislike
,
inconsistency
,
inimicalness
,
jingoism
,
litigation
,
loathing
,
logomachy
,
malevolence
,
malice
,
malignity
,
martialism
,
militancy
,
militarism
,
mortal horror
,
nausea
,
negativeness
,
noncooperation
,
obstinacy
,
opposing
,
oppositeness
,
opposition
,
opposure
,
oppugnance
,
oppugnancy
,
paper war
,
personality conflict
,
perverseness
,
perversity
,
polar opposition
,
polarity
,
polarization
,
polemic
,
posing against
,
pugnaciousness
,
pugnacity
,
quarrel
,
quarreling
,
quarrelsomeness
,
rancor
,
recalcitrance
,
refractoriness
,
repugnance
,
repulsion
,
rivalry
,
saber rattling
,
scrapping
,
showdown
,
shuddering
,
spite
,
spitefulness
,
squabbling
,
state of war
,
strife
,
struggle
,
truculence
,
uncooperativeness
,
unfriendliness
,
unpeacefulness
,
vying
,
war
,
war of words
,
warfare
,
warmongering
,
warpath
,
words
,
wrangling
militarism
collapse
a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests
related words >
Eisenhower Doctrine
,
Monroe Doctrine
,
Nixon Doctrine
,
Truman Doctrine
,
absolute monarchy
,
aggression
,
aggressiveness
,
antagonism
,
appeasement
,
aristocracy
,
autarchy
,
autocracy
,
autonomy
,
balance of power
,
bellicism
,
bellicosity
,
belligerence
,
belligerency
,
brinkmanship
,
chauvinism
,
coalition government
,
coexistence
,
colonialism
,
combativeness
,
commonwealth
,
compromise
,
constitutional government
,
constitutional monarchy
,
containment
,
contentiousness
,
democracy
,
detente
,
deterrence
,
dictatorship
,
diplomacy
,
diplomatic
,
diplomatics
,
dollar diplomacy
,
dollar imperialism
,
dominion rule
,
duarchy
,
duumvirate
,
dyarchy
,
expansionism
,
federal government
,
federation
,
ferocity
,
feudal system
,
fierceness
,
fight
,
foreign affairs
,
foreign policy
,
garrison state
,
gerontocracy
,
good-neighbor policy
,
heteronomy
,
hierarchy
,
hierocracy
,
home rule
,
hostility
,
imperialism
,
internationalism
,
isolationism
,
jingoism
,
limited monarchy
,
manifest destiny
,
martial law
,
martialism
,
meritocracy
,
militancy
,
military government
,
mob rule
,
mobocracy
,
monarchy
,
nationalism
,
neocolonialism
,
neutralism
,
nonresistance
,
ochlocracy
,
oligarchy
,
open door
,
open-door policy
,
pantisocracy
,
patriarchate
,
patriarchy
,
peace offensive
,
peaceful coexistence
,
police state
,
preparedness
,
pugnaciousness
,
pugnacity
,
pure democracy
,
quarrelsomeness
,
regency
,
representative democracy
,
representative government
,
republic
,
saber rattling
,
self-determination
,
self-government
,
shirt-sleeve diplomacy
,
shuttle diplomacy
,
social democracy
,
spheres of influence
,
stratocracy
,
technocracy
,
the big stick
,
thearchy
,
theocracy
,
totalitarian government
,
totalitarian regime
,
tough policy
,
triarchy
,
triumvirate
,
truculence
,
tyranny
,
unfriendliness
,
unpeacefulness
,
warmongering
,
warpath
,
welfare state
,
world politics
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