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combative, battling, warring, brawling, determined, resolute, striving, contentious, disputatious, under arms, argumentative, angry, ferocious, quarrelsome, ready to fight, ripe for a fight, bellicose, belligerent, militant, boxing, wrestling, sparring, fencing, jousting, skirmishing, tilting, pugnacious, warlike, contending, at war, in the thick of the fray, like cats and dogs*, at the point of the bayonet*, in the cannon's mouth*, up in arms*, at swords' points*.
Antonyms peaceful*, peaceable, meek.
