Similar words: combat, probative, combatant, rebarbative, noncombatant, motivative, native, sedative. Meaning: ['kɒmbətɪv] 
adj. 1. inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits 2. striving to overcome in argument 3. having or showing a ready disposition to fight.
adj. 1. inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits 2. striving to overcome in argument 3. having or showing a ready disposition to fight. 
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1. He conducted the meeting in his usual combative style, refusing to admit any mistakes.
2. Congress is in a combative mood.
3. The prime minister was in a combative mood, twice accusing the opposition of gross incompetence.
4. Luckily, Mr Clarke has a combative, sceptical personality.
5. Her tough combative spirit seemed essentially unimpaired.
6. The international airline business is a fiercely combative arena, where competitors enjoy nothing more than slitting each other's throats.
7. He was a passionate, combative, choleric, and difficult man, frequently embroiled in legal disputes.
8. Gingrich was more combative than apologetic during appearances at three town meetings in his suburban Atlanta district.
9. Delacroix based his combative, romantic works on the compound curve.
10. The combative veteran gave his side the lead on the hour, and then helped them to a flattering 3-0 win.
11. The nomads were not converted overnight: they remained combative and unpredictable.
12. He was combative, preferred elegant excesses of language, and had developed a strong, up-front sense of self.
13. The second is intensely combative performance art, and just about self-financing.
14. Former Mayor Koch won a reputation for his combative style.
15. She is an egocentric, angry, combative woman spoiling for a fight.
16. He brought a combative good humor to his dealings with the archdiocese.
17. Her indifference aroused perhaps his combative soul.
18. Well, bottlenose dolphins can be aggressive – and combative!
19. Mr. Obama has recently adopted a more combative tone.
20. But it's a combative form. of fighting.
21. He is inflexible, unbending and combative.
22. Bush's vision of American power was combative and aggressive.
23. This was the subject of a combative discussion this week at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
24. She believes that women are at least as combative as are.
25. Daniels is at his best when he's cool and direct, rather than combative and polemical.
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26. As boys grow older, they readily turn to wrestling and combative play using make-believe weapons of war and violence.
27. But the time spent at Battersea developed his skill and enthusiasm for combative sport.
28. As tension between his parents mounted, Scott, who was then about three, began to get more belligerent and combative.
29. For that reason, the training encourages officers to either close in tighter on a combative suspect or move out of range.
30. Video frequency demonstration: Dead Lin Songling displays fierce truly combative, the aggressivity is very strong.
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