warlike

Etymology

From war + -like. Compare the older warly.

adj

  1. Hostile and belligerent.
  2. Martial, bellicose or militaristic.
    Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless. 2013-07-20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845

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