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English
Etymology
From war + -like. Compare the older warly.
Pronunciation
Adjective
warlike (comparative more warlike, superlative most warlike)
- Hostile and belligerent.
- Martial, bellicose or militaristic.
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:Doubt not my Lord and gratious Soueraigne,
But Tamburlaine, and that Tartarian rout,
Shall either periſh by our warlike hands,
Or plead for mercie at your highneſſe feet.
2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
Antonyms
Translations
belligerent
- Belarusian: ваяўні́чы m (vajaŭníčy)
- Bulgarian: войнствен (bg) (vojnstven)
- Catalan: bel·ligerant
- Danish: krigerisk (da)
- Dutch: strijdlustig (nl), oorlogszuchtig (nl)
- Esperanto: militema
- Finnish: sotaisa (fi)
- French: belliqueux (fr)
- German: streitlustig, angriffslustig (de), kampfeslustig (de)
- Greek: φιλοπόλεμος (el) m (filopólemos), πολεμοχαρής (el) m (polemocharís)
- Ancient: πολεμικός (polemikós)
- Irish: fearchonta, gaisciúil, treasach, tachrach (literary), trodach
- Italian: bellicoso (it)
- Latin: bellicōsus (la), bellax
- Macedonian: воинствен (voinstven)
- Maori: kaitaua, kaikiri
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: krigersk
- Nynorsk: krigersk
- Occitan: belligerant (oc), guerrièr (oc)
- Portuguese: beligerante (pt)
- Russian: вражде́бный (ru) (vraždébnyj)
- Spanish: guerrero (es), beligerante (es)
- Turkish: savaşçıl
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bellicose
- Bulgarian: военен (bg) (voenen)
- Catalan: bel·licós
- Dutch: krijgshaftig (nl), strijdlustig (nl)
- Finnish: sotaisa (fi), sotaintoinen
- French: belliqueux (fr)
- German: kriegerisch (de), kämpferisch (de)
- Greek: θούριος (el) m (thoúrios), πολεμικός (el) m (polemikós)
- Ancient: πολεμικός (polemikós)
- Irish: ághmhar, anghlonnach, badhbha, cathach, cathartha, cogúil, draganta, ághdha (literary), ánrata (literary), éaglannach (literary), níothach (literary), trodach
- Old Irish: cathach
- Italian: bellicoso (it)
- Kyrgyz: согушчул (ky) (soguşcul)
- Latin: bellifer, bellax
- Macedonian: воинствен (voinstven)
- Maori: kaitaua, kaikiri
- Occitan: bellicós (oc), querelós, batalhièr
- Portuguese: belicoso (pt) m
- Spanish: belicoso (es)
- Turkish: savaşçıl
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