militant :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. a militant reformer

adj. showing a fighting disposition; "highly competitive sales representative"; "militant in fighting for better wages for workers"; "his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy"

fighting, belligerent, war-ridden, warring, at war

adj. engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations"; "a fighting war"

radical

n. a person who has radical ideas or opinions

revolutionist, revolutionary, subversive, subverter

n. a radical supporter of political or social revolution

terrorist

n. a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities

fanatic, fiend

n. a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause); "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"--Winston Churchill

partisan, zealot

n. a fervent and even militant proponent of something

violent, warlike, unpacific

adj. disposed to warfare or hard-line policies; "militant nations"; "hawkish congressman"; "warlike policies"

assertive, self-asserting, self-assertive, vigorous

adj. confidently aggressive; "too assertive as a salesman"; "his self-assertive and unflagging energy"

bellicose, combative, pugnacious, scrappy, truculent

adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature"

hard-hitting, high-pressure

adj. aggressively and persistently persuasive; "a hard-hitting advertising campaign"; "a high-pressure salesman"

hostile

adj. unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business); "hostile takeover"; "hostile tender offer"; "hostile bid"

rapacious, ravening, predatory, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous

adj. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"

disturbed, unpeaceable

adj. not disposed to peace

stormy

adj. characterized by violent emotions or behavior; "a stormy argument"; "a stormy marriage"

violent, warlike, unpacific

adj. disposed to warfare or hard-line policies; "militant nations"; "hawkish congressman"; "warlike policies"

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