fighting

1. 1.

   engaged in or ready for military or naval operations

   “on active duty”

   “the platoon is combat-ready”

   “review the fighting forces”

   Synonymsactivecombat-ready

   Similaroperational

   military

Other forms of fighting

plural

fightings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fighting

What does fighting mean?

fighting means "the act of fighting; any contest or struggle". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fighting?

fighting has 2 syllables: figh-ting. The stress falls on "figh". In IPA it is /ˈfaɪtɪŋ/.

What is another word for fighting?

Close synonyms include fight, combat, scrap, active, combat-ready. 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 fighting a common word?

fighting is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fighting?

1 word rhymes with fighting. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.