Crossword-Solution: BELLIGERENT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Belligerent | p. pr. | Waging war; carrying on war. |
| Belligerent | p. pr. | Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights. |
| Belligerent | n. | A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| BELLIGERENT | anagram | BELLIGETNER |
We have 173 clues for the answer “BELLIGERENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Aggro | 1 answer |
| Engaged in war | 1 answer |
| PARTY waging regular war | 1 answer |
| PERSON waging regular war | 1 answer |
| Hawkish | 3 answers |
| Spoiling for a fight | 4 answers |
| soldierly | 8 answers |
| CAN REFER TO A COUNTRY, FACTION OR PERSON | 11 answers |
| Martial | 12 answers |
| scrappy | 16 answers |
| Gladiator | 16 answers |
| brawler | 18 answers |
| Warmonger | 18 answers |
| fearless hero | 18 answers |
| enlistee | 19 answers |
| wartime fighter | 22 answers |
| Swordsman | 23 answers |
| combat soldier | 24 answers |
| pugnacious person | 28 answers |
| Foe | 30 answers |
| BOXER ___ | 30 answers |
| freedom fighter | 32 answers |
| Aggressor | 32 answers |
| assailant | 33 answers |
| Killer | 37 answers |
| battler | 38 answers |
| Enemy | 40 answers |
| armed fighter | 41 answers |
| Contender | 44 answers |
| Mercenary | 47 answers |
| Combatant | 53 answers |
| antithetic | 55 answers |
| goading | 55 answers |
| litigious | 55 answers |
| Shame-less | 56 answers |
| Peppery | 56 answers |
| militaristic | 56 answers |
| military | 56 answers |
| Warrior | 56 answers |
| Antagonist | 56 answers |
| Brassy. | 57 answers |
| Picky ___ | 57 answers |
| Averse | 58 answers |
| eristic | 58 answers |
| cavilling | 61 answers |
| Acrimonious | 61 answers |
| churning | 62 answers |
| outraged | 62 answers |
| troublemaking | 62 answers |
| Ranting | 63 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with BELLIGERENT (5)
From out of the meagerness of our censored histories we learned that for fifteen years after the cessation of diplomatic relations between the United States of North America and the belligerent nations of the Old World, news of more or less doubtful authenticity filtered, from time to time, into the Western Hemisphere from the Eastern.
Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.
Why the young rancher, irascible, obstinate, belligerent, should invariably defer to the poet, was an inconsistency never to be explained.
And Kentucky and Tennessee, wayward, belligerent infants who had outgrown their swaddling clothes, were heard from again.
Nearing home, however, his belligerent spirit was diverted to happier interests by the discovery that some workmen had left a caldron of tar in the cross-street, close by his father's stable.
Quotes with BELLIGERENT (3)
As a fantasist, I well understand the power of escapism, particularly as relates to romance. But when so many stories aimed at the same audience all trumpet the same message — And Lo! There shall be Two Hot Boys, one of them your Heart’s Intended, the other a vain Pretender who is also hot and with whom you shall have guilty makeouts before settling down with your One True Love — I am inclined to stop viewing the situation as benign and start wondering why, for instance, the …
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.
Religion turned some folks belligerent.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1969–1980).