combative

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
22
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈkɒm.bə.tɪv/(UK)
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/ˈkɒm.bə.tɪv/(UK) · /kɒmˈbæ.tɪv/(UK) · /kəmˈbæ.tɪv/(US) · /ˈkɑm.bə.tɪv/(US)

Definition of combative

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
    “Their combative conduct leads to many problems.”
    “He finds, not “demigods” but “a combative group of exhausted, drunken, broken, petty, partisan, scheming, squabbling, bloviating, sensory-deprived, underoxygenated, fed-up, talked-out, overheated delegates so distraught they threatened violence, secession.”
    “Salvation arrived - as it so often has in this nerve-shredding campaign - through Dykes, the combative striker.”

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Etymology

From combat + -ive.

Words you can make from combative

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7-letter words

5 words

6-letter words

11 words

5-letter words

27 words

4-letter words

63 words

3-letter words

62 words

2-letter words

23 words

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