adjective. Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive.

adjective. Of, pertaining to, or engaged in warfare.

noun. One that is hostile or aggressive, especially one that is engaged in war.

Warlike; given to waging war; characterized by a tendency to wage or carry on war.

Of warlike character; constituting or tending to an infraction of peace: as, a belligerent. tone of debate.

Actually engaged in war: as, the belligerent powers.

Pertaining to war, or to those engaged in war: as, belligerent rights, etc.

noun. A nation, power, or state carrying on war; also, a person engaged in fighting.

noun. A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.

adjective. Waging war; carrying on war.

adjective. Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents.

adjective. Engaged in warfare, warring.

adjective. Eager to go to war, warlike.

adjective. Of or pertaining to war.

adjective. Aggressively hostile, eager to fight.

adjective. Acting violently towards others.

noun. A state or other armed participant in warfare

adjective. characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

noun. someone who fights (or is fighting)

adjective. engaged in war

"By this it was provided that thereafter the captain of a cruiser who should impress an American citizen should be liable to heavy penalties, to be enacted by law; but as the preamble to this proposition read, "Whereas it is not lawful for a belligerent to impress or carry off, from on board a neutral, seafaring persons _who are not the subjects of the belligerent_," there was admitted implicitly the right to impress those who were such subjects, the precise point at issue."