Meaning

2 senses
  1. Hostile and belligerent.

    streitlustig, angriffslustig, kampfeslustig

    вражде́бныйvraždébnyj

  2. Martial, bellicose or militaristic.

    kriegerisch, kämpferisch

More definitions
  • suggesting war or military life
  • disposed to warfare or hard-line policies

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself.

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  2. A warlike people, or one that likes warlike rulers, is probably mentally unwell.

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  3. The idealism of American bourgeois philosophers is aggressive and warlike.

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  4. King Dodon, a lazy and gluttonous ruler, is greatly worried by his warlike neighbors.

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  5. O'erwhelmed with odds, we perish; first of all, / struck down by fierce Peneleus by the fane / of warlike Pallas, doth Coroebus fall.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
belligerent:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
belligerent:
bellicose:

Origin

From war + -like. Compare the older warly.

From war + -like. Compare the older warly.

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Forms

more warlike, most warlike
Comparativemore warlike Lesson
Superlativemost warlike Lesson

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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