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Definition: Combatively |
CombativelyAdverb1. In a bellicose contentious manner; "`Don't trespass onto my property,' the neighbor shouted combatively". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "combatively" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
Synonym: CombativelySynonym: scrappily (adv). (additional references) |
| Language | Translations for "combatively"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | kampfbereite. (various references) | ||||
Greek | μαχητικά, επιθετικά (aggressively). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ombativelycay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Combatively" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: combativity, conatively. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-i-l-m-o-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: coevality, combative, metabolic. | |
-3 letters: actively, biacetyl, bloviate, locative, moveably, velocity, vocality. | |
-4 letters: acolyte, alembic, aloetic, amoebic, beamily, bevomit, bimetal, cembali, cembalo, citable, climate, embolic, iceboat, limbate, meatily, metical, movable, movably, mycelia, obviate, ovality, ovately, telomic, timbale, vicomte, vilayet, violate, vocable, vocably, voltaic, vomicae, votable. | |
-5 letters: abvolt, acetyl, active, albeit, albite, alcove, aliyot, amebic, amylic. | |
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