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WARLIKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does warlike mean?
• WARLIKE (adjective)
The adjective WARLIKE has 2 senses:
1. disposed to warfare or hard-line policies
2. suggesting war or military life
Familiarity information: WARLIKE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Disposed to warfare or hard-line policies
Synonyms:
Context example:
warlike policies
Similar:
unpeaceful (not peaceful)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Suggesting war or military life
Synonyms:
martial; warlike
Similar:
military (characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military)
Context examples
Waldron, very flushed and warlike, continued his observations.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A hostile or warlike attitude aroused by a real or supposed wrong.
(Anger, NCI Thesaurus)
The Lady Rochefort, a bright and laughter-loving dame, sat upon the left of her warlike spouse, with Lady Tiphaine upon the right.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Had he known that it was no warlike hero, but a little tailor who was standing before him, it would have gone to his heart still more than it did.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Who more gladly than we throughout the Four Nations received the 'bloody sword,' or at its warlike call flocked quicker to the standard of the King?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Whether it is logical now to teach the people to be peaceful in an age when their very existence may come to depend upon their being warlike, is a question for wiser heads than mine.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“But you,” said Alleyne, “there have been changes with you also. Why should not the workman carry his tools? Where are bow and sword and cap—and why so warlike, John?”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In a hard and warlike time he was celebrate that he have more iron nerve, more subtle brain, more braver heart, than any man.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The air was full of the clack of their voices and the merry prattling of children, in strange contrast to the flash of arms and constant warlike challenge from the walls above.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The warlike days are over.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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