combatative
Uncommon form of combative.
Adjective
- Uncommon form of combative.
- He frequented mostly the society of women; because he thought them more richly endowed by nature with pity and modesty, two pacific qualities which, he said, alone temper the combatative propensities of human beings. -...
- Some are loquacious; some are argumentative and religious; some are lascivious; some are excessively foolish; some are brutal, beastly, ugly, quarrelsome, wicked, combatative, murderous. Others are simply stupid. -...
- As this caterpillar is very readily dislodged, jarring the tree and killing the insect on the ground is a convenient combatative measure. - 1910, Edith M. Patch, O. A. Johannsen, Apple Tree Insects of Maine, page 25:
Origin
From combat + -ative. First attested in 1835.