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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Warlike \War"like'\, adjective
1. Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition.
Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men. --Shak.
2. Belonging or relating to war; military; martial.
The great archangel from his warlike toil Surceased. --Milton.
Syn: Martial; hostile; soldierly. See {Martial}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
warlike
adjective
1: inclined to make war [syn: {unpacific}]
2: suggesting war or military life [syn: {martial}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "warlike": aggressive, antagonistic, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, contending, contentious, contestant, contesting, disputant, enemy, ferocious, fierce, fighting, full of fight, hawkish, hostile, inimical, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, martial, militant, militaristic, military, offensive, pugnacious, quarrelsome, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, soldierlike, soldierly, striving, struggling, trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, warmongering, warring
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