Usually means: Aggressive, confrontational in behavior, attitude.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. combative: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. combative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. combative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. combative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. combative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Combative, combative: Wordnik
  7. combative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. combative: Wiktionary
  9. combative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. combative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. combative: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Combative, combative: Dictionary.com
  13. combative: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Combative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Combative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. combative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. combative: Rhymezone
  18. Combative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. combative: Free Dictionary
  20. combative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. combative: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. combative: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. combative: Encyclopedia

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

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adjective:  Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.

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