belligerent
adjective
[ bəˈlɪdʒ(ə)r(ə)nt ]
• hostile and aggressive.
• "the mood at the meeting was belligerent"
Similar:
hostile,
aggressive,
threatening,
antagonistic,
pugnacious,
bellicose,
truculent,
confrontational,
argumentative,
quarrelsome,
disputatious,
contentious,
militant,
combative,
quick-tempered,
hot-tempered,
ill-tempered,
bad-tempered,
irascible,
captious,
spoiling for a fight,
stroppy,
bolshie,
scrappy,
oppugnant,
pissy,
belligerent
noun
• a nation or person engaged in war or conflict, as recognized by international law.
• "ships and goods captured at sea by a belligerent"
Origin:
late 16th century: from Latin belligerant- ‘waging war’, from the verb belligerare, from bellum ‘war’.
