Before their honeymoon was over, they were forced to part, for the king had to go on a warlike expedition to a far country, and leave his young wife alone at home.
Source: tatoeba (3881909)
Warlike
//ˈwɔɹlaɪk//
Synonyms for "warlike" (60 found)
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Related words (30)
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
73 translations across 25 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- πολεμικός adj (belligerent)
- πολεμικός adj (bellicose)
Belarusian
1 entries- ваяўні́чы adj (belligerent)
Bulgarian
2 entries- военен adj (bellicose)
- войнствен adj (belligerent)
Catalan
2 entries- bel·licós adj (bellicose)
- bel·ligerant adj (belligerent)
Danish
1 entries- krigerisk adj (belligerent)
Dutch
4 entries- krijgshaftig adj (bellicose)
- oorlogszuchtig adj (belligerent)
- strijdlustig adj (belligerent)
- strijdlustig adj (bellicose)
Esperanto
1 entries- militema adj (belligerent)
Finnish
3 entries- sotaintoinen adj (bellicose)
- sotaisa adj (belligerent)
- sotaisa adj (bellicose)
French
2 entries- belliqueux adj (belligerent)
- belliqueux adj (bellicose)
German
4 entries- angriffslustig adj (belligerent)
- kampfeslustig adj (belligerent)
- kriegerisch adj (bellicose)
- kämpferisch adj (bellicose)
Greek
4 entries- θούριος adj (bellicose)
- πολεμικός adj (bellicose)
- πολεμοχαρής adj (belligerent)
- φιλοπόλεμος adj (belligerent)
Irish
4 entries- anghlonnach adj (bellicose)
- badhbha adj (bellicose)
- cathach adj (bellicose)
- cathartha adj (bellicose)
Italian
2 entries- bellicoso adj (belligerent)
- bellicoso adj (bellicose)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- согушчул adj (bellicose)
Latin
4 entries- bellax adj (belligerent)
- bellax adj (bellicose)
- bellicōsus adj (belligerent)
- bellifer adj (bellicose)
Macedonian
2 entries- воинствен adj (belligerent)
- воинствен adj (bellicose)
Māori
4 entries- kaikiri adj (belligerent)
- kaikiri adj (bellicose)
- kaitaua adj (belligerent)
- kaitaua adj (bellicose)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- krigersk adj (belligerent)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- krigersk adj (belligerent)
Occitan
4 entries- batalhièr adj (bellicose)
- bellicós adj (bellicose)
- belligerant adj (belligerent)
- guerrièr adj (belligerent)
Old Irish
1 entries- cathach adj (bellicose)
Portuguese
2 entries- belicoso adj (bellicose)
- beligerante adj (belligerent)
Russian
1 entries- вражде́бный adj (belligerent)
Spanish
3 entries- belicoso adj (bellicose)
- beligerante adj (belligerent)
- guerrero adj (belligerent)
Turkish
2 entries- savaşçıl adj (belligerent)
- savaşçıl adj (bellicose)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
"Whoe'er thou art, henceforward blot from mind / the Greeks, and leave thy miseries behind. / Ours shalt thou be; but mark, and tell me now, / what means this monster, for what use designed? / Some warlike engine? or religious vow? / Who planned the steed, and why? Come, quick, the truth avow."
Source: tatoeba (6813523)
Here warlike Epytus, renowned in fight, / and valiant Rhipeus gather to our side, / and Hypanis and Dymas, matched in might, join with us, by the glimmering moon descried. / Here Mygdon's son, Coroebus, we espied, / who came to Troy, Cassandra's love to gain, / and now his troop with Priam's hosts allied; / poor youth and heedless! whom in frenzied strain / his promised bride had warned, but warned, alas! in vain.
Source: tatoeba (6817125)
O'erwhelmed with odds, we perish; first of all, / struck down by fierce Peneleus by the fane / of warlike Pallas, doth Coroebus fall.
Source: tatoeba (6827240)
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