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Combative means ready and willing to fight — or, much more often in ordinary life, ready and willing to argue. A combative interview is one where the questions push hard. A combative teammate hates to lose. It is not only fists; it is often a sharp, fighting spirit in words. Depending on who is speaking, it can sound like praise (brave, not easily pushed over) or like a warning (too eager to quarrel). It is a fairly formal adjective; in casual talk people might just say she likes a fight or he is argumentative.
好鬥的
組成From combat + -ive.
同家族的字
- combatthe fight or struggle
- combatantsomeone who fights in a war
- combativenessthe noun: that fighting spirit
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
combativeadj/ˈkɒm.bə.tɪv/
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Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
- Their combative conduct leads to many problems.
- He finds, not “demigods” but “a combative group of exhausted, drunken, broken, petty, partisan, scheming, squabbling, bloviating, sensory-deprived, underoxygenated, fed-up, talked-out, overheated delegates so distraught they threatened violence, secession.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。