Synonyms for warlike
- aggressive
- attacking
- bellicose
- belligerent
- bloodthirsty
- combative
- contending
- contentious
- contrary
- fighting
- gladiatorial
- hawkish
- inimical
- martial
- militant
- militaristic
- military
- offensive
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome
- ructious
- soldierly
- truculent
- unfriendly
- warmongering
- warring
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Antonyms for warlike
- harmonizing
- peaceful
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bellicose
adjective. belligerent
belligerent
adjective. nasty, argumentative
combative
adjective. aggressive
hostile
adjective. antagonistic, mean
- adverse
- alien
- allergic
- anti
- argumentative
- bellicose
- belligerent
- bitter
- catty
- chill
- cold
- competitive
- contentious
- contrary
- disapproving
- dour
- hateful
- ill-disposed
- inhospitable
- inimical
- malevolent
- malicious
- malignant
- militant
- nasty
- opposed
- opposite
- oppugnant
- ornery
- pugnacious
- rancorous
- scrappy
- sour
- spiteful
- surly
- unfavorable
- unfriendly
- unkind
- unpropitious
- unsociable
- unsympathetic
- unwelcoming
- viperous
- virulent
- vitriolic
- warlike
lawless
adjective. reckless, ungoverned
- anarchic
- anarchical
- anarchistic
- bad
- barbarous
- chaotic
- contumacious
- criminal
- despotic
- disobedient
- disordered
- disorderly
- evil
- fierce
- heterodox
- infringing
- insubordinate
- insurgent
- mutinous
- nihilistic
- noncompliant
- nonconformist
- piratical
- rebellious
- recusant
- revolutionary
- riotous
- savage
- seditious
- tempestuous
- terrorizing
- traitorous
- turbulent
- tyrannous
- uncivilized
- uncultivated
- unorthodox
- unpeaceful
- unrestrained
- unruly
- untamed
- violent
- warlike
- wild
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.