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Militant synonyms

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combative
Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
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  1. Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
  2. Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
  3. Eager or disposed to fight.
aggressive
Fast growing; tending to spread quickly and invade:
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  1. Fast growing; tending to spread quickly and invade:
  2. Inclined to behave in an actively hostile fashion:
  3. Characterized by aggression:
belligerent
At war; designating or of a state recognized under international law as being engaged in a war
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  1. At war; designating or of a state recognized under international law as being engaged in a war
  2. Showing a readiness to fight or quarrel
  3. Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive.
activist
Of, relating to, or being an activist.
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  1. Of, relating to, or being an activist.
  2. Of, relating to, or engaged in activism.
  3. Behaving as an activist.
rioter
One who riots; part of the unruly violent crowd causing a riot.
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  1. One who riots; part of the unruly violent crowd causing a riot.
demonstrator
One who carries out a demonstration.
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  1. One who carries out a demonstration.
  2. An article or product used in a demonstration.
  3. A person who demonstrates a product
belligerent
Of, pertaining to, or engaged in warfare.
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  1. Of, pertaining to, or engaged in warfare.
  2. At war; designating or of a state recognized under international law as being engaged in a war
  3. Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive.
combatant
Ready or prepared to fight
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  1. Ready or prepared to fight
  2. Fighting
  3. Engaging in armed strife.
hostile
Feeling or showing enmity or ill will:
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  1. Feeling or showing enmity or ill will:
  2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy:
  3. Being in opposition; opposed:
aggressive
Fast growing; tending to spread quickly and invade:
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  1. Fast growing; tending to spread quickly and invade:
  2. Characterized by aggression:
  3. Inclined to behave in an actively hostile fashion:
belligerent
Of, pertaining to, or engaged in warfare.
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  1. Of, pertaining to, or engaged in warfare.
  2. At war; designating or of a state recognized under international law as being engaged in a war
  3. Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive.
combative
Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
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  1. Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
  2. Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
  3. Eager or disposed to fight.
contentious
Of or marked by contention
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  1. Of or marked by contention
  2. Involving or causing contention; controversial:
  3. Provoking or likely to provoke controversy
hostile
Feeling or showing enmity or ill will:
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  1. Feeling or showing enmity or ill will:
  2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy:
  3. Being in opposition; opposed:
bellicose
Of a quarrelsome or hostile nature; eager to fight or quarrel; warlike
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  1. Of a quarrelsome or hostile nature; eager to fight or quarrel; warlike
  2. Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament.
belligerent
At war; designating or of a state recognized under international law as being engaged in a war
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  1. At war; designating or of a state recognized under international law as being engaged in a war
  2. Of, pertaining to, or engaged in warfare.
  3. Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive.
combative
Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
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  1. Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
  2. Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
  3. Eager or disposed to fight.
contentious
Involving or causing contention; controversial:
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  1. Involving or causing contention; controversial:
  2. Of or marked by contention
  3. Provoking or likely to provoke controversy
hostile
Feeling or showing enmity or ill will:
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  1. Feeling or showing enmity or ill will:
  2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy:
  3. Being in opposition; opposed:
pugnacious
Eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome; combative
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  1. Eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome; combative
  2. Combative in nature.
quarrelsome
Argumentative; belligerent; contentious; given to quarreling.
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  1. Argumentative; belligerent; contentious; given to quarreling.
  2. Given to quarreling; contentious.
  3. Marked by quarreling.
scrappy
Made of scraps; consisting of odds and ends
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  1. Made of scraps; consisting of odds and ends
  2. Full of fighting spirit.
  3. (Informal) Fond of fighting, arguing, etc.; aggressive
truculent
Disposed to violence; ferocious or cruel.
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  1. Disposed to violence; ferocious or cruel.
  2. Fierce; cruel; savage; ferocious
  3. Disposed or eager to fight or engage in hostile opposition; belligerent.
warlike
Martial, bellicose or militaristic.
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  1. Martial, bellicose or militaristic.
  2. Fit for, fond of, or ready for war; bellicose; martial
  3. Hostile and belligerent.
Find another word for militant. In this page you can discover 33 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for militant, like: combative, aggressive, belligerent, activist, rioter, violent objector, demonstrator, aggressive, militaristic, protester and belligerent.

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  • Vijayanagar gave the militant Mahommedanism of Northern India no, opportunity for a combined attack on the Portuguese settlements.

  • This early Christian scripture is one of the books militant in the world's literature.

  • The .Maccabaeans used compulsion in some cases, but Judaism in the Diaspora was a missionary religion in the less militant sense.

  • Lange then entered on a career of militant journalism in the cause of political and social reform.

  • The last stage of Scholasticism preceding its dissolution is marked by the revival of Nominalism in a militant form.

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