Synonyms of the word

militant

• adj. Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike.
• adj. Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative.
• n. (obsolete) A soldier, a combatant.
• n. An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological…
• n. Specifically, someone who supports the Trotskyite political view expressed in the newspaper Militant,…

activist

• n. One who is politically active in the role of a citizen; especially, one who campaigns for change.
• n. One who is conspicuously active in carrying out any occupational or professional functions.
• adj. Behaving as an activist.

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.

belligerent

• adj. Engaged in warfare, warring.
• adj. Eager to go to war, warlike.
• adj. Of or pertaining to war.
• adj. (By extension) Aggressively hostile, eager to fight.
• adj. Acting violently towards others.
• adj. uncooperative.
• n. A state or other armed participant in warfare.

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.

crusader

• n. A person engaged in a crusade.

fighting

• v. present participle of fight.
• adj. Engaged in war or other conflict.
• adj. Apt to provoke a fight.
• n. A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight.

hawkish

• adj. Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.
• adj. Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.

meliorist

• n. A proponent of meliorism.
• adj. Of or relating to meliorism.
• adj. Supporting the principles of meliorism.

reformer

• n. One who reforms, or who works for reform.
• n. (historical) One who was involved in the Reformation.
• n. (chemical engineering, fuel cells) A device which converts hydrocarbons into a hydrogen-rich mixture of…
• n. (chemical engineering, petrochemistry) A device used to convert petroleum refinery naphthas, typically…

reformist

• adj. Advocating reform of an institution or body.
• adj. Specifically, advocating reform and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary…
• n. One who advocates reform (of an institution).
• n. Specifically, one who advocates reform of society and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed…
• n. (dated, 17th C.) An advocate of reform in the Church of England; a Reformer.
• n. (dated, 18th century) An advocate or supporter of political reform in the United Kingdom. (Common from…
• n. A member of a reformed religious denomination.

unpeaceful

• adj. Not peaceful, the opposite of peaceful.

war-ridden

• adj. Dominated or plagued by war.

warlike

• adj. Hostile and belligerent.
• adj. Martial, bellicose or militaristic.

warring

• adj. engaged in war; belligerent.
• n. The act of engaging in war or conflict.