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.
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Warlike
/ˈwɔɹlaɪk/
Synonyms for "warlike" (69 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Adjective(1 words)
Noun(1 words)
Verb(1 words)
Strong matches (21)
Verb(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (34)
Adjective(4 words)
Noun(2 words)
Related word relations
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More general
2 entriesadjectivedescriptive term
More specific
3 entriesCollocations
5 entriesmilitaristic symbolismwarlike culturewarlike imagerywarlike rhetoricwarlike stance
Derivations
1 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
38 translations across 19 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πολεμικός adj (bellicose)
Bulgarian
1 entries- военен adj (bellicose)
Catalan
1 entries- bel·licós adj (bellicose)
Dutch
2 entries- krijgshaftig adj (bellicose)
- strijdlustig adj (bellicose)
Finnish
2 entries- sotaintoinen adj (bellicose)
- sotaisa adj (bellicose)
French
1 entries- belliqueux adj (bellicose)
German
2 entries- kriegerisch adj (bellicose)
- kämpferisch adj (bellicose)
Greek
2 entries- θούριος adj (bellicose)
- πολεμικός adj (bellicose)
Irish
4 entries- anghlonnach adj (bellicose)
- badhbha adj (bellicose)
- cathach adj (bellicose)
- cathartha adj (bellicose)
Italian
1 entries- bellicoso adj (bellicose)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- согушчул adj (bellicose)
Latin
2 entries- bellax adj (bellicose)
- bellifer adj (bellicose)
Macedonian
1 entries- воинствен adj (bellicose)
Māori
2 entries- kaikiri adj (bellicose)
- kaitaua adj (bellicose)
Occitan
3 entries- batalhièr adj (bellicose)
- bellicós adj (bellicose)
- querelós adj (bellicose)
Old Irish
1 entries- cathach adj (bellicose)
Portuguese
1 entries- belicoso adj (bellicose)
Spanish
1 entries- belicoso adj (bellicose)
Turkish
1 entries- 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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