belligerent

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   engaged in war

   belligerent (or warring) nations

2. 2
   noun

   someone who fights or is fighting

   They were being a belligerent in the bar.

3. 3
   adj

   Aggressively hostile, eager to fight.

   And I think the facts are that Beijing is a belligerent bully jealous and envious of what Taiwan has accomplished- mainland China- that's what I get out of all of this.

4. 4
   noun

   A state or other armed participant in warfare

   The UN sent a treaty proposal to the belligerents.

5. 5
   adj

   characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

6. 6
   adj

   Engaged in warfare, warring.

7. 7
   adj

   Eager to go to war, warlike.

8. 8
   adj

   Of or pertaining to war.

Etymology

From Latin belligerans (“waging war”), present active participle of belligerō (“to wage war”), from belliger (“waging war, warlike”), from bellum (“war”) + -ger (from gerō (“to lead, wage, carry on”)).