combative

combative
    adj 1: inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or
           disagree, even to engage in law suits; "a style described
           as abrasive and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a
           litigious and acrimonious spirit" [syn: {contentious},
           {combative}, {disputatious}, {disputative}, {litigious}]
    2: striving to overcome in argument; "a dialectical and
       agonistic approach" [syn: {agonistic}, {agonistical},
       {combative}]
    3: having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose
       young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious
       nature" [syn: {battleful}, {bellicose}, {combative}]
    

Combative \Com"bat*ive\ (? or ?), a.
   Disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
   [1913 Webster]
    

75 Moby Thesaurus words for "combative":
      aggressive, antagonistic, argumental, argumentative, battling,
      bellicose, belligerent, bickering, bloodthirsty, bloody,
      bloody-minded, chauvinist, chauvinistic, contentious,
      controversial, dialectic, disputatious, divisive, enemy, energetic,
      eristic, factional, factious, ferocious, fierce, fighting,
      full of fight, hawkish, hostile, ill-humored, inimical, irascible,
      irritable, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, litigious,
      logomachic, manful, manly, martial, militant, militaristic,
      military, offensive, on the offensive, partisan, pilpulistic,
      polarizing, polemic, pro and con, pugnacious, quarrelsome,
      saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, shrewish,
      soldierlike, soldierly, strenuous, trigger-happy, truculent,
      unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, vigorous, virile,
      warlike, warmongering, warring, wrangling