combative
B2CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Aggressive and inclined to resist or fight, sometimes as a sign of confusion or lack of oxygen.
The head-injured man became combative, so we spoke calmly and considered why he was agitated.
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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