combative

combat +‎ -ive

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒm.bə.tɪv/, (uncommon) /kɒmˈbæ.tɪv/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kəmˈbæ.tɪv/, /ˈkɑm.bə.tɪv/

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combative (comparative more combative, superlative most combative)

1. Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.

   Their combative conduct leads to many problems.

   • 2013, The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy:

     He finds, not “demigods” but “a combative group of exhausted, drunken, broken, petty, partisan, scheming, squabbling, bloviating, sensory-deprived, underoxygenated, fed-up, talked-out, overheated delegates so distraught they threatened violence, secession.

   • 2021 October 12, Jamie Lyall, “Faroe Islands 0-1 Scotland”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Salvation arrived - as it so often has in this nerve-shredding campaign - through Dykes, the combative striker.

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combative

1. feminine singular of combatif