warring
Engaged in combat
Warring describes parties engaged in war or bitter conflict with each other: warring nations, warring factions, warring tribes.
The word appears far more often than other forms of the verb war.
It can extend to any sustained antagonism: Her warring emotions left her paralyzed.
Bitter ongoing rivalry
- disputeVerbal clash over differences
- clashViolent disagreement or collision
- confrontationDirect hostile encounter
- rivalryOngoing contest between opponents
discord · hostilities · strife · contention · quarrel · antagonism · dissension · infighting
Organized military forces
- troopsMilitary personnel collectively
- soldiersMilitary personnel who fight
- forcesCauses of motion
- battalionsLarge organized military units
regiments · brigades · infantry · artillery · campaigns · offensives · sieges · battlefields
Killing and wounding
- carnageWidespread violent death
- destructionAct of completely ruining
- slaughterKilling for meat
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
brutality · savagery · atrocities · devastation · casualties · killing · merciless · ruthless
Ancestral social groups
- clansRelated family groups
- nationsSovereign political entities
- statesModes of being
- kingdomsMonarch-ruled territories
parties · groups · sides · camps · rivals · enemies · adversaries · combatants
Violent disturbance or confusion
- inner conflictPsychological tension within oneself
- tornPulled into pieces
- conflictedEmotionally at odds
- ambivalentHaving contradictory feelings
turbulent · wrestling · battling · struggling · anguished · tormented · divided · contradictory
feud
Bitter ongoing rivalry
- disputeVerbal clash over differences
- clashViolent disagreement or collision
- confrontationDirect hostile encounter
rivalry · discord · hostilities · strife · contention · quarrel · antagonism · dissension · infighting · opposition
armies
Organized military forces
battalions · regiments · brigades · infantry · artillery · campaigns · offensives · sieges · battlefields · fronts
bloodshed
Killing and wounding
- carnageWidespread violent death
- destructionAct of completely ruining
- slaughterKilling for meat
massacre · brutality · savagery · atrocities · devastation · casualties · killing · merciless · ruthless · fierce
tribes
Ancestral social groups
kingdoms · parties · groups · sides · camps · rivals · enemies · adversaries · combatants · belligerents
turmoil
Violent disturbance or confusion
- inner conflictPsychological tension within oneself
- tornPulled into pieces
- conflictedEmotionally at odds
ambivalent · turbulent · wrestling · battling · struggling · anguished · tormented · divided · contradictory · internal strife
- hostile attitudeshostile, aggressive, combative, belligerent, adversarial
- hostilityanimosity, hostility, antagonism, belligerence, malice
- personalitiesintrovert, optimist, extrovert, pessimist, idealist
- BalkansAlbania, Bosnia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Kosovo
- discorddiscord, Discord, dissonance, discordance, dissonant
warringpeaceful
Free from disturbance
at peace · peaceable · nonbelligerent · pacified · harmonious
warringfriendly
Showing kindness, warmth
allied · harmonizing · cooperative · united · reconciled
warringpeaceful
Free from disturbance
nonaggressive · peaceable · pacific · nonviolent · gentle
- road warriorPerpetual business traveler
- warrior cultureSociety valuing combat above all
- weekend warriorSporadic recreational exerciser
- wounded warriorsService members harmed in combat
- keyboard warriorCombative online arguer
- little warrior