belligerent
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
General adjective
Hostile and aggressive, or engaged in a war.
His belligerent tone made it clear he had come to fight, not to talk.
Business adjective
Aggressively hostile and inclined to fight.
The buyer's belligerent stance hardened once the seller refused to lower the price.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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