ADJECTIVE
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having or showing a ready disposition to fight
a combative impulse
bellicose young officers
a contentious nature
How To Use battleful In A Sentence
- The interference and intolerable discussion brought the three of them forward, battleful and fierce. Men, Women, and Boats
- This part of the world led a strange, battleful existence. The Red Badge of Courage
- It took moments for it to cast off its battleful ways and resume its accustomed course of thought. The Red Badge of Courage
