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Etymology

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From combat +‎ -ive.

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɒm.bə.tɪv/, (uncommon) /kɒmˈbæ.tɪv/
  • (US) IPA(key): /kəmˈbæ.tɪv/, /ˈkɑm.bə.tɪv/

Adjective

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combative (comparative more combative, superlative most combative)

  1. Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
    Their combative conduct leads to many problems.
    • 2013, The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy:
      He finds, not “demigods” but “a combative group of exhausted, drunken, broken, petty, partisan, scheming, squabbling, bloviating, sensory-deprived, underoxygenated, fed-up, talked-out, overheated delegates so distraught they threatened violence, secession.
    • 2021 October 12, Jamie Lyall, “Faroe Islands 0-1 Scotland”, in BBC Sport[1]:
      Salvation arrived - as it so often has in this nerve-shredding campaign - through Dykes, the combative striker.

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combative

  1. feminine singular of combatif