Related Words:
- 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
- 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
- spear
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- a long pointed rod used as a weapon
- an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- pierce with a spear; "spear fish"
- thrust up like a spear; "The branch speared up into the air" related words >
- anthrophore,
- assegai,
- auger,
- axis,
- bag,
- bayonet,
- bill,
- bine,
- bite,
- blade,
- bole,
- bore,
- bough,
- bract,
- bracteole,
- bractlet,
- branch,
- branchedness,
- branchiness,
- broach,
- burgeon,
- cane,
- carpophore,
- catch,
- caudex,
- caulicle,
- caulis,
- cotyledon,
- countersink,
- culm,
- dagger,
- deadwood,
- dirk,
- drill,
- empierce,
- enmesh,
- ensnare,
- entangle,
- entrap,
- fix,
- flag,
- flagellum,
- floral leaf,
- foliole,
- footstalk,
- fork,
- foul,
- frond,
- funicule,
- funiculus,
- glume,
- gore,
- gouge,
- gouge out,
- halberd,
- harpoon,
- haulm,
- hole,
- honeycomb,
- hook,
- impale,
- involucre,
- involucrum,
- javelin,
- knife,
- lamina,
- lance,
- land,
- lasso,
- leaf,
- leaflet,
- leafstalk,
- lemma,
- ligule,
- limb,
- mesh,
- nail,
- needle,
- net,
- noose,
- offshoot,
- partisan,
- pedicel,
- peduncle,
- penetrate,
- perforate,
- petal,
- petiole,
- petiolule,
- petiolus,
- pierce,
- pike,
- pile,
- pine needle,
- pink,
- plunge in,
- poniard,
- prick,
- punch,
- puncture,
- ramage,
- ramification,
- ream,
- ream out,
- reed,
- riddle,
- rope,
- run through,
- runner,
- saber,
- sack,
- sarment,
- scion,
- seed leaf,
- seedstalk,
- sepal,
- shoot,
- skewer,
- slip,
- snag,
- snare,
- sniggle,
- spathe,
- spike,
- spire,
- spit,
- spontoon,
- spray,
- sprig,
- sprit,
- sprout,
- stab,
- stalk,
- stem,
- stick,
- stiletto,
- stipe,
- stipula,
- stipule,
- stock,
- stolon,
- straw,
- sucker,
- switch,
- sword,
- take,
- tangle,
- tangle up with,
- tap,
- tendril,
- thallus,
- tigella,
- transfix,
- transpierce,
- trap,
- trepan,
- trephine,
- trunk,
- twig
- militarism
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- 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
- 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
- auger,
- bayonet,
- bespread,
- bite,
- blow,
- bore,
- broach,
- browse,
- budget,
- consume,
- continue the same,
- core,
- cost,
- cost out,
- countersink,
- crawl with,
- creep with,
- dagger,
- diffuse,
- dip into,
- direction,
- dirk,
- disburse,
- dissipate,
- drag along,
- drag on,
- dress rehearsal,
- drill,
- drone,
- empierce,
- essence,
- examination,
- exhaust,
- expend,
- extend throughout,
- fill,
- finish,
- fix,
- fork out,
- gamble away,
- gist,
- glance over,
- glance through,
- go,
- go over,
- go through,
- gore,
- gouge,
- gouge out,
- hang the expense,
- hole,
- honeycomb,
- hum,
- imbue,
- impale,
- incur costs,
- inspection,
- invest,
- knife,
- lance,
- lavish,
- lay out,
- leave no void,
- leaven,
- main point,
- meat,
- mise-en-scene,
- mounting,
- needle,
- occupy,
- open the purse,
- outlay,
- overhaul,
- overhauling,
- overrun,
- overspread,
- overswarm,
- pay,
- pay out,
- penetrate,
- perforate,
- perlustration,
- permeate,
- persist,
- perusal,
- pervade,
- pierce,
- pink,
- pith,
- plunge in,
- poniard,
- practice,
- prevail,
- prick,
- production,
- punch,
- puncture,
- put out,
- quality control,
- ream,
- ream out,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- rehearsal,
- rehearse,
- resume,
- review,
- riddle,
- run over,
- rundown,
- saber,
- scan,
- scatter,
- schedule,
- scrutiny,
- seize the day,
- shell out,
- sink money in,
- skewer,
- skim,
- slather,
- sow broadcast,
- spear,
- spend,
- spike,
- spit,
- splurge,
- squander,
- stab,
- stage management,
- staging,
- stick,
- stiletto,
- study,
- substance,
- suffuse,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- summary,
- summation,
- survey,
- swarm with,
- sword,
- tap,
- teem with,
- throw away,
- throw money around,
- thumb over,
- thumb through,
- transfix,
- transfuse,
- transpierce,
- trepan,
- trephine,
- use up,
- visitation,
- walk-through,
- wash up
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