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Definition of belligerent in English: belligerentadjective bəˈlɪdʒ(ə)r(ə)ntbəˈlɪdʒərənt 1Hostile and aggressive. 敌对的，好战的 the mood at the meeting was belligerent 会场笼罩着好战的气氛。 Example sentencesExamples - And I think we do need to hear what they are saying because they act as a restraint to an aggressive or belligerent response’.
- The kids, especially the boys, are aggressive, belligerent, and rebellious.
- In arguments they are emotionally very aggressive - belligerent, contemptuous, insulting.
- Numerous specific shop-floor situations generated anger and easily drifted into aggressive or belligerent acts, either verbal or physical.
- The rail companies are taking a belligerent attitude towards the disputes.
- Such views naturally lead to an ‘aggressive, belligerent foreign policy’, she added.
- The country's belligerent veto threats seemed to signal its willingness to force grievous splits in the Security Council.
- The Chief Minister's belligerent attitude and his subsequent public utterances justifying his stance have only made matters worse for the Centre.
- A moment later their threatening and belligerent attitude made him realize he and Les were outnumbered and outweighed.
- A belligerent stance was one's only deterrent against other people whose interests were in conflict with one's own.
- His team has played a particularly belligerent and aggressive brand of cricket, and I think they're the benchmark against which other international cricket teams have judged themselves.
- In a fight it could be a communication of how aggressive or belligerent or dominant a lobster is.
- The government had reason to view him as a representative of vicious, belligerent forces hostile to the West.
- The company has taken a belligerent attitude towards the dispute, refusing to negotiate whilst staff remain on strike.
- He's a good footballer but he's not very aggressive, not very belligerent and I'd like to think that with 20-odd caps he'd be a bit more aggressive than he is.
- However, when there is a war, of which our people are much experienced, such a naïve attitude can only be disastrous when confronting a belligerent foe, and can only bring great misery to the defending side.
- In combination with the threatening and belligerent attitude of the princes, it did much to fuel the violent anti-émigré attitude of the Legislative Assembly during the autumn of 1791.
- Every cut or twist of tire evokes a different feeling, from scary to charming, aggressive to shy, belligerent to just plain worn out.
- They were probably all nice people but they acted like caricatures of government bureaucrats: at once belligerent and ignorant, threatening and uninterested, detached and intrusive.
- Aggressive or belligerent behavior would have undermined the objectives of the expedition and could well have proved suicidal.
Synonyms hostile, aggressive, threatening, antagonistic, pugnacious, bellicose, truculent, confrontational, argumentative, quarrelsome, disputatious, contentious, militant, combative quick-tempered, hot-tempered, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, irascible, captious informal spoiling for a fight British informal stroppy, bolshie North American informal scrappy North American vulgar slang pissy rare oppugnant - 1.1 Engaged in a war or conflict, as recognized by international law.
交战的，处于冲突中的 a conference of socialists from all belligerent countries Example sentencesExamples - Historically, when military forces occupied belligerent territory, little how-to guidance existed.
- It is based upon the customary international laws of belligerent occupation, including the Hague Regulations.
- Indeed, this war continued in the wake of ongoing internal conflicts in several of the belligerent nations.
- The IRA's response, the hunger strike campaign, equally proclaimed its determination to assert its belligerent status.
- The 1935 act banned munitions exports to belligerents and restricted American travel on belligerent ships.
- At the same time, given that a belligerent Ireland was judged not to be in a position to defend itself against a German attack, Britain would have had to supply its new ally with arms and men, both of which were scarce.
- My current projects include a detailed examination of the origin and history of military commissions and the law of belligerent occupation.
- It is widely recognized that access by belligerent groups to the gains from drug production and trafficking contributes to the intensity and prolongation of military conflict.
- He also reminds readers that neutral status in wartime runs the risk of attracting contempt from belligerent states.
- Take also the case of lawful belligerent reprisals (for example, the use of prohibited weapons).
- At first the committee had to work covertly as under the Neutrality Acts an American could lose his citizenship if he fought in the armed forces of a belligerent power.
- This framework must recognize the unique threat that terrorists pose to nation-states, yet not grant them the legitimacy accorded to belligerent states.
- Even between belligerent states, such treaties will not necessarily be suspended; a fortiori, if the conflict is not international, treaty rules will in general continue to apply.
Synonyms warring, at war, combatant, fighting, battling, contending, conflicting, clashing, quarrelling militant, militaristic, martial, warlike, warmongering, sabre-rattling, hawkish, gung-ho informal at each other's throats
noun bəˈlɪdʒ(ə)r(ə)ntbəˈlɪdʒərənt A nation or person engaged in war or conflict, as recognized by international law. 交战的，处于冲突中的 ships and goods captured at sea by a belligerent Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps these will provide guidance on other unlawful belligerents as well.
- Unlawful belligerents were protected by law when captured, but the government was free to choose either military or law-enforcement methods to deal with them.
- In cases involving criminal prosecution of unlawful belligerents, this could mean imposing peacetime rules on the collection of evidence.
- Unlawful belligerents were entitled to legal protection, but the government was free to choose the means of force used against them, as was asserted long after.
- In effect, what the critics of military tribunals would have the President do is turn enemy belligerents over to civilian law enforcement authorities for prosecution.
- Military leaders of the belligerents thought that dropping or landing of forces right on the target area was as a rule possible and even necessary when the target area was small.
- The laws of the Hague (the laws of war) establish the rights and obligations incumbent on belligerents.
- But naval power can never, by itself, win wars except where either island states, or ones dependent on sea power for survival, are the belligerents, or the conflict itself is for control of an island.
- At the same time, it must be stressed that under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians caught up in war or conflict falls on the belligerents.
- In rejecting this challenge, the Court drew the distinction between the common law notion of lawful and unlawful belligerents.
- Moreover, as against states not parties to an international armed conflict, belligerents enjoy no special privileges and remain bound by general rules of international law.
- Unlawful belligerents are never entitled to the status and protection accorded members of national armed forces.
- Similar technologies are being applied within the military to subdue belligerents.
- Several of the belligerents in the recent war were not parties to this Convention.
- The rules of warfare are established by international law with a view to regulating the conduct of belligerents in the course of international armed conflicts.
- It should also cancel any existing sales of military equipment to possible belligerents in the war, the organisation said in a statement.
- The customary laws of war, when adapted for conflict with unlawful belligerents, must always incorporate rules of humanitarian restraint.
- Why do we hand them this right to be recognised as belligerents, when we do not even understand their war aims?
- Such ‘popular passions’ were at least as important as political or military calculations in the determination of the belligerents to press on with the war.
- Traditional peacekeeping missions were deployed only when a conflict had ceased and with the consent of the belligerents.
Synonyms militarist, hawk, jingoist, sabre-rattler, aggressor, provoker, belligerent
OriginLate 16th century: from Latin belligerant- 'waging war', from the verb belligerare, from bellum 'war'. Definition of belligerent in US English: belligerentadjectivebəˈlɪdʒərəntbəˈlijərənt 1Hostile and aggressive. 敌对的，好战的 a bull-necked, belligerent old man Example sentencesExamples - A belligerent stance was one's only deterrent against other people whose interests were in conflict with one's own.
- The company has taken a belligerent attitude towards the dispute, refusing to negotiate whilst staff remain on strike.
- And I think we do need to hear what they are saying because they act as a restraint to an aggressive or belligerent response’.
- His team has played a particularly belligerent and aggressive brand of cricket, and I think they're the benchmark against which other international cricket teams have judged themselves.
- The rail companies are taking a belligerent attitude towards the disputes.
- The Chief Minister's belligerent attitude and his subsequent public utterances justifying his stance have only made matters worse for the Centre.
- The government had reason to view him as a representative of vicious, belligerent forces hostile to the West.
- Every cut or twist of tire evokes a different feeling, from scary to charming, aggressive to shy, belligerent to just plain worn out.
- They were probably all nice people but they acted like caricatures of government bureaucrats: at once belligerent and ignorant, threatening and uninterested, detached and intrusive.
- In combination with the threatening and belligerent attitude of the princes, it did much to fuel the violent anti-émigré attitude of the Legislative Assembly during the autumn of 1791.
- The kids, especially the boys, are aggressive, belligerent, and rebellious.
- He's a good footballer but he's not very aggressive, not very belligerent and I'd like to think that with 20-odd caps he'd be a bit more aggressive than he is.
- A moment later their threatening and belligerent attitude made him realize he and Les were outnumbered and outweighed.
- However, when there is a war, of which our people are much experienced, such a naïve attitude can only be disastrous when confronting a belligerent foe, and can only bring great misery to the defending side.
- Numerous specific shop-floor situations generated anger and easily drifted into aggressive or belligerent acts, either verbal or physical.
- In arguments they are emotionally very aggressive - belligerent, contemptuous, insulting.
- The country's belligerent veto threats seemed to signal its willingness to force grievous splits in the Security Council.
- Aggressive or belligerent behavior would have undermined the objectives of the expedition and could well have proved suicidal.
- In a fight it could be a communication of how aggressive or belligerent or dominant a lobster is.
- Such views naturally lead to an ‘aggressive, belligerent foreign policy’, she added.
Synonyms hostile, aggressive, threatening, antagonistic, pugnacious, bellicose, truculent, confrontational, argumentative, quarrelsome, disputatious, contentious, militant, combative - 1.1 Engaged in a war or conflict, as recognized by international law.
交战的，处于冲突中的 Example sentencesExamples - The IRA's response, the hunger strike campaign, equally proclaimed its determination to assert its belligerent status.
- Take also the case of lawful belligerent reprisals (for example, the use of prohibited weapons).
- Historically, when military forces occupied belligerent territory, little how-to guidance existed.
- Indeed, this war continued in the wake of ongoing internal conflicts in several of the belligerent nations.
- The 1935 act banned munitions exports to belligerents and restricted American travel on belligerent ships.
- It is widely recognized that access by belligerent groups to the gains from drug production and trafficking contributes to the intensity and prolongation of military conflict.
- He also reminds readers that neutral status in wartime runs the risk of attracting contempt from belligerent states.
- My current projects include a detailed examination of the origin and history of military commissions and the law of belligerent occupation.
- At first the committee had to work covertly as under the Neutrality Acts an American could lose his citizenship if he fought in the armed forces of a belligerent power.
- At the same time, given that a belligerent Ireland was judged not to be in a position to defend itself against a German attack, Britain would have had to supply its new ally with arms and men, both of which were scarce.
- It is based upon the customary international laws of belligerent occupation, including the Hague Regulations.
- Even between belligerent states, such treaties will not necessarily be suspended; a fortiori, if the conflict is not international, treaty rules will in general continue to apply.
- This framework must recognize the unique threat that terrorists pose to nation-states, yet not grant them the legitimacy accorded to belligerent states.
Synonyms warring, at war, combatant, fighting, battling, contending, conflicting, clashing, quarrelling
nounbəˈlɪdʒərəntbəˈlijərənt A nation or person engaged in war or conflict, as recognized by international law. 交战的，处于冲突中的 Example sentencesExamples - Why do we hand them this right to be recognised as belligerents, when we do not even understand their war aims?
- The rules of warfare are established by international law with a view to regulating the conduct of belligerents in the course of international armed conflicts.
- Such ‘popular passions’ were at least as important as political or military calculations in the determination of the belligerents to press on with the war.
- Traditional peacekeeping missions were deployed only when a conflict had ceased and with the consent of the belligerents.
- Perhaps these will provide guidance on other unlawful belligerents as well.
- Unlawful belligerents are never entitled to the status and protection accorded members of national armed forces.
- Several of the belligerents in the recent war were not parties to this Convention.
- At the same time, it must be stressed that under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians caught up in war or conflict falls on the belligerents.
- In rejecting this challenge, the Court drew the distinction between the common law notion of lawful and unlawful belligerents.
- In cases involving criminal prosecution of unlawful belligerents, this could mean imposing peacetime rules on the collection of evidence.
- Military leaders of the belligerents thought that dropping or landing of forces right on the target area was as a rule possible and even necessary when the target area was small.
- It should also cancel any existing sales of military equipment to possible belligerents in the war, the organisation said in a statement.
- Unlawful belligerents were entitled to legal protection, but the government was free to choose the means of force used against them, as was asserted long after.
- The laws of the Hague (the laws of war) establish the rights and obligations incumbent on belligerents.
- Similar technologies are being applied within the military to subdue belligerents.
- But naval power can never, by itself, win wars except where either island states, or ones dependent on sea power for survival, are the belligerents, or the conflict itself is for control of an island.
- Unlawful belligerents were protected by law when captured, but the government was free to choose either military or law-enforcement methods to deal with them.
- In effect, what the critics of military tribunals would have the President do is turn enemy belligerents over to civilian law enforcement authorities for prosecution.
- Moreover, as against states not parties to an international armed conflict, belligerents enjoy no special privileges and remain bound by general rules of international law.
- The customary laws of war, when adapted for conflict with unlawful belligerents, must always incorporate rules of humanitarian restraint.
Synonyms militarist, hawk, jingoist, sabre-rattler, aggressor, provoker, belligerent
OriginLate 16th century: from Latin belligerant- ‘waging war’, from the verb belligerare, from bellum ‘war’. |