Warlike

Pronunciation

Origin

From war + -like.

Full definition of warlike

Adjective

1. Hostile and belligerent.
2. Martial, bellicose or militaristic.
• 2013-07-20, Old soldiers?, Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

Antonyms

• nonwarlike