Definition of Combatively

1. Adverb. In a bellicose contentious manner. "`Don't trespass onto my property,' the neighbor shouted combatively"

Exact synonyms: Scrappily
Partainyms: Combative, Scrappy

Definition of Combatively

1. Adverb. In a combative way. ¹

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Definition of Combatively

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Combatively

combat mission
combat neurosis
combat pay
combat pilot
combat ship
combat sport
combat zone
combatable
combatant
combatants
combated
combater
combaters
combating
combative
combatively (current term)
combativeness
combativenesses
combats
combatted
combatting
combatworthy
combe
combed
combeite
comber
combers
combes
combfish
combi

Literary usage of Combatively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"Yet you are not to imagine that he holds his opinion combatively against his critics. The verdict is with the observer. In the Comedies, and here and there ..."

2. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1906)
"I think, I must confess, that most persons who have used these words combatively have, as Mr. Matthew Arnold most falsely and unjustly said of another ..."

3. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1875)
"I do answer your letters (somewhat combatively) every month in my mind, but all these months I have been waiting for an hour of sufficient strength and ..."

4. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1871)
"A man may be " on the make " when he is keen after acquiring filthy lucre; " on the fight" when he is combatively inclined ; " on the shoot " when ready ..."

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