Synonyms of the word

combative

• adj. Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.

aggressive

• adj. Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking.
• adj. (programming) Of code optimization techniques: exploiting every opportunity to be applied.

agonistic

• adj. Of or relating to contests that were originally participated in by the Ancient Greeks; athletic.
• adj. (zoology, anthropology) Characterised by conflict or hostility.
• adj. (rhetoric) Argumentative, combative.
• adj. (pharmacology) Pertaining to an agonist.

agonistical

• adj. Striving to overcome in argument; combative.
• adj. Struggling to achieve effect; strained and contrived.
• adj. Relating to contests, originally of the ancient Greeks.

argumentative

• adj. Prone to argue or dispute.

bellicose

• adj. Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
• adj. Showing or having the impulse to be combative.

competitive

• adj. (economics) capable of competing successfully.
• adj. of or pertaining to competition.
• adj. (of someone's character) inclined to compete.
• adj. (biochemistry) inhibiting the action of an enzyme by binding with it.
• adj. (euphemistically, of prices) cheap, especially used of quality products.

competitory

• adj. (dated) Acting in competition or rivalry.

contentious

• adj. Marked by heated arguments or controversy.
• adj. Given to struggling with others out of jealousy or discord.

disputatious

• adj. Of or relating to something that is in question as to its value or intent.
• adj. Inclined to argue or debate; provoking debate.

disputative

• adj. Tending to dispute.

litigious

• adj. Of or relating to litigation.
• adj. Inclined to engage in lawsuits.
• adj. Argumentative or combative.