Combative is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COMBATIVE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• inclined to combat
• ready or eager to fight or argue
• eager or ready to fight, argue, etc
• Disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
• inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits
• striving to overcome in argument
• having or showing a ready disposition to fight
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• marked by eagerness to fight or contend

Words related to COMBATIVE

combatively23 combativeness22

Words that contain COMBATIVE

combatively23 uncombative20 noncombative21 combativeness22 uncombatively25 combativenesses24 uncombativeness24

How to use COMBATIVE in a sentence

• Though he did not look like a soldier he had about him the very combative air which belongs to so many modern financiers of the Christian breed.
• If I had been more sterling or more combative things might have gone extremely far.
• The bravest, and the most combative and self-sacrificing of our comrades went into the Fighting Groups.
• This man possessed a fiery temper, indomitable energy, and the combative instinct which takes delight in fighting for its own sake.
• We see him demonstrative, combative, even saucy sometimes on the platform, but rarely or never ruffled, sour, or out of temper.
• The gaze was long and combative in its character, and constituted a trial of that moral strength which each, in the peculiar constitution of his being, seemed to possess.
• His collection of epithets is large, and, since he is combative by nature, he engages freely in the war of words when engagements at close quarters are impracticable.
• He did not ask himself whether the combative instinct once aroused might not function for lesser cause.
• Oscar was not combative, though he was supercilious in his early pose.
• Combative Gill was certain to take up the gauntlet.
• He was not a fighter, and the length of this contest might have wearied a combative nature.
• All the eyes were trained on him, some with a wide, expectant fixity, others bright with combative fire.
• Hers was hard and combative, as if his suggestion had outraged her and she was ready to fight it.
• The judge himself laughed outright at the happy and humorous description of the combative attorney, who, pale with passion, gasped in inarticulate rage.
• Combative, he would yield to no opinion, even on matters of which he knew far less than those opposed to him.
• He was dogmatic in his religious beliefs, combative by nature and never happier than when fighting the Devil in his own corner, as he expressed it.
• Some are quarrelsome and combative and will fight on the slightest provocation.
• Practical, alert, keen, ambitious, combative, courageous.
• If this is true, the lesson lasted him all his life, for a less combative adult than Eugene Field never graduated from an American college.
• There can be no doubt, I think, that in a civilised country there are many more forces at work than in a combative country.
• If so, a great deal of the force that was combative has now been transformed to the force which resists combat.
• Mountjoy was still up-stairs in her bedroom, and was palpitating with fear as she thought of the anger of the two combative lovers.
• In truth, it was a situation which might have discouraged a more combative patriot than Buchanan.
• Knights, men-at-arms, and indeed men of all ranks, were full of a combative spirit.
• The stronger parts of character, the combative and propelling forces he evidently lacked from the beginning.
• Rather short of stature, he was a compact figure, and his face had in it combative energy as the marked characteristic.
• The adolescent is naturally vigorous and combative, and wants, above all else, something worth fighting for.
• The combative pretensions of the governor had received a severe shock.
• The Europeans, he thinks, are among the most combative of the human race.
• While not combative by nature, he possessed the characteristic American trait of measuring himself by the attainments of others.
• But the undiscovered piqued and puzzled him and aroused his combative egotism.

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