Usually means: Hostile and aggressive in nature.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. belligerent: Merriam-Webster
  2. belligerent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. belligerent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. belligerent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. belligerent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Belligerent, belligerent: Wordnik
  7. belligerent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. belligerent: Wiktionary
  9. belligerent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. belligerent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. belligerent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. belligerent: Dictionary.com
  13. belligerent (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. belligerent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Belligerent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Belligerent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. belligerent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. belligerent: Rhymezone
  19. belligerent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. belligerent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. belligerent: FreeDictionary.org
  22. belligerent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. belligerent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. belligerent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. belligerent: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. belligerent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. belligerent: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. belligerent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Engaged in warfare, warring.
adjective:  Eager to go to war, warlike.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to war.
adjective:  (by extension) Aggressively hostile, eager to fight.
adjective:  Acting violently towards others.
adjective:  Uncooperative.
noun:  A state or other armed participant in warfare

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