Word Meanings - WARLIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition. Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men. Shak. 2. Belonging or relating to war; military; martial. The great archangel from his warlike toil Surceased. Milton. Syn.

Additional info about word: WARLIKE

1. Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition. Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men. Shak. 2. Belonging or relating to war; military; martial. The great archangel from his warlike toil Surceased. Milton. Syn. -- Martial; hostile; soldierly. See Martial.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WARLIKE)

• Martial
• Military
• brave
• warlike

Related words: (words related to WARLIKE)

• MARTIALIST
  A warrior. Fuller.
• BRAVENESS
  The quality of state or being brave.
• BRAVE
  Sp. bravo, fierce, wild, savage, prob. from. L. barbarus. See 1. Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act. 2. Having any sort of superiority or excellence; -- especially such as in conspicuous.
• MARTIAL
  Pertaining to, or containing, iron; chalybeate; as, martial preparations. Martial flowers , a reddish crystalline salt of iron; the ammonio-chloride of iron. -- Martial law, the law administered by the military power of a government when it
• WARLIKENESS
  Quality of being warlike.
• MARTIALLY
  In a martial manner.
• WARLIKE
  1. Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition. Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men. Shak. 2. Belonging or relating to war; military; martial. The great archangel from his warlike toil Surceased. Milton. Syn.
• MARTIALISM
  The quality of being warlike; exercises suitable for war.
• MILITARY
  1. Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace,
• BRAVERY
  1. The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity. Remember, sir, my liege, . . . The natural bravery of your isle. Shak. 2. The act of braving; defiance; bravado. Reform, then, without bravery or scandal of former times and persons.
• MARTIALNESS
  The quality of being martial.
• BRAVELY
  1. In a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly; splendidly; nobly. 2. Finely; gaudily; gayly; showily. And decked herself bravely to allure the eyes of all men that should see her. Judith. x. 4. 3. Well; thrivingly; prosperously.
• MARTIALIZE
  To render warlike; as, to martialize a people.
• COURT-MARTIAL
  A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
• EMBRAVE
  1. To inspire with bravery. Beaumont. 2. To decorate; to make showy and fine. And with sad cypress seemly it embraves. Spenser.
• OUTBRAVE
  1. To excel in bravery o 2. To excel in magnificence or comeliness. The basest weed outbraves his dignity. Shak.
• IMMARTIAL
  Not martial; unwarlike.