combatively

1. 1.

   in a bellicose contentious manner

   “`Don't trespass onto my property,' the neighbor shouted combatively”

   Synonymsscrappily

Questions about combatively

What does combatively mean?

combatively means "in a bellicose contentious manner".

How many syllables are in combatively?

combatively has 5 syllables: com-ba-ti-ve-ly. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for combatively?

Close synonyms include scrappily. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is combatively a common word?

combatively is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.