Warring

English

Adjective

Warring (not comparable)

1. engaged in war; belligerent

Thesaurus

aggressive, ajar, all-out war, antagonistic, appeal to arms, armed combat, armed conflict, attack, battle, battling, bellicose, belligerence, belligerency, belligerent, bloodshed, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, chauvinist, chauvinistic, clashing, combat, combative, conflicting, confused, contending, contentious, contestant, contesting, disputant, enemy, ferocious, fierce, fighting, full of fight, grating, harsh, hawkish, hostile, hostilities, hot war, inimical, jangling, jangly, jarring, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, jostling, la guerre, martial, might of arms, militant, militaristic, military, military operations, offensive, open hostilities, open war, pugnacious, quarrelsome, resort to arms, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, shooting war, soldierlike, soldierly, state of war, striving, struggling, the sword, total war, trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, war, warfare, warlike, warmaking, warmongering, wartime

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːrɪŋ

Translations

engaged in war; belligerent

Finnish: sotaakäyvä (fi)

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Woiwurrung

Noun

Warring

1. ear

See also

• wirn
• wirimbel
• wimbel

References

• Barry J. Blake. 1991 Woiwurrung In: The Aboriginal Language of Melbourne and Other Sketches, ed. R. M. W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake, pp. 31-124, OUP, Handbook of Australian Languages 4.