Vocabulary
Combative
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
ready or eager to fight or argue
Urdu meaning
جنگجو ، جھگڑالو،لڑنے مرنے کو تیار
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- In jail and with the walls seemingly closing in, former prime minister Imran Khan has taken an increasingly combative position against the authorities.
- Instead of indulging in combative rhetoric, both sides must bring down temperatures in South Asia.
- It is a rather combative stance to take for a leader who seems to be running out of options.
- It reminded the ruling party of its own combative past when it routinely used incendiary language and theatrics against then prime minister Benazir Bhutto in and out of the assemblies.
- Whatever the reasons, if India`s leaders continue to use such combative language, a peaceful resolution to South Asia`s problems in the near future is highly unlikely.
Synonyms
pugnacious, aggressive, antagonistic, quarrelsome, argumentative
Antonyms
conciliatory، agreeable, compromising, peaceful
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