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belligerent powers
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người tham chiến, nước tham chiến, phe tham chiến
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belligerent

belligerent (bə-lĭjʹər-ənt) adjective

1. Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive.

2. Of, pertaining to, or engaged in warfare.

noun

One that is hostile or aggressive, especially one that is engaged in war.

[Latin belligerāns, belligerant- present participle of belligerāre, to wage war, from belliger, warlike : bellum, war + gerere, to make.]

belligʹerently adverb

Synonyms: belligerent, bellicose, pugnacious, contentious, quarrelsome. These adjectives are compared as they mean having or showing an eagerness to fight. Belligerent may specify actual engagement in combat (tried to arrange a truce between the belligerent nations), or it may refer to a tendency to hostile behavior (A belligerent reporter badgered the President for the facts). Bellicose and pugnacious suggest a natural disposition to fight: "All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else" (H.L. Mencken). A retired litigator misses the challenge to her pugnacious intellect. Contentious implies chronic argumentativeness: "His style has been described variously as abrasive and contentious, overbearing and pompous" (Victor Merina). Quarrelsome suggests bad temper and a perverse readiness to bicker and quarrel: "On the days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful, and . . . they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome" (Benjamin Franklin).

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belligerent
belligerent (adj)
aggressive, argumentative, quarrelsome, loudmouthed (informal), confrontational, pugnacious, spoiling for a fight, cantankerous, stroppy (UK, informal)
antonym: easygoing