belligerent
adjective/bəˈlɪdʒərənt/
/bəˈlɪdʒərənt/
- aggressive and unfriendly synonym hostile
- a belligerent attitude
- He is always very belligerent towards me.
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- [only before noun] (formal) (of a country) fighting a war
- the belligerent countries/states/nations
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin belligerant- ‘waging war’, from the verb belligerare, from bellum ‘war’.
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