belligerent (n.)
- antagonist
- ardent
- battler
- bickering
- bitter
- blade
- bravo
- brawler
- bully
- bullyboy
- caustic
- chauvinist
- combatant
- competitor
- contender
- contestant
- disputant
- duelist
- enemy
- enforcer
- eristic
- fencer
- fighter
- fighting
- gamecock
- gladiator
- goon
- gorilla
- hawk
- hood
- hoodlum
- hooligan
- hostile
- hot
- jingo
- jingoist
- knight
- martial
- militant
- military
- offensive
- partisan
- plug-ugly
- polemic
- quarreler
- rioter
- rival
- rough
- rowdy
- ruffian
- savage
- scrapper
- sore
- squabbler
- strong-armer
- struggler
- swashbuckler
- sword
- swordsman
- thug
- tilter
- tough
- warmonger
- warmongering
- wrangler
- wrangling
belligerent (adj.)
- acrid
- aggressive
- antagonistic
- antipathetic
- ardent
- argumentative
- attacking
- bellicose
- bitter
- bloodthirsty
- bloody
- bloody-minded
- bully
- caustic
- chauvinistic
- clashing
- combatant
- combative
- conflicting
- contentious
- controversial
- despiteful
- disputatious
- divisive
- eristic
- factious
- ferocious
- fierce
- fighting
- hateful
- hawkish
- hostile
- hot
- inimical
- invading
- irascible
- irritable
- jingoistic
- litigious
- malevolent
- malicious
- malignant
- martial
- militant
- militaristic
- military
- offensive
- partisan
- polemic
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome
- rancorous
- repugnant
- rough
- rowdy
- sanguinary
- sanguineous
- savage
- scrappy
- shrewish
- soldierlike
- soldierly
- sore
- spiteful
- tempered
- tough
- trigger-happy
- truculent
- unfriendly
- unpeaceable
- unpeaceful
- venomous
- virulent
- vitriolic
- warlike
- warring
When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.
