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What is the adjective for wars?

What's the adjective for wars? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs war, warray and warrey which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

warlike
  1. Hostile and belligerent.
  2. Martial, bellicose or militaristic.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Political leaders were more honest about the warlike nature of nations a hundred years ago.”
      “The next morning it became clear that Ireland was in the grip of a warlike state of national emergency.”
      “Personnel are not to travel to countries where there are warlike operations either with or without Australian Defence Force involvement.”
warring
warrish
  1. Militant; warlike.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Brightned the black horizon of his parish ; Gave to the Prince of Darkness such hard blows, That Satan was afraid to show his nose, (Except in hell), before this priest so warrish!”
      “The specific examples of warrish attitudes change from year to year, but the underlying bellicosity remains.”
warless
  1. Without war, devoid of war.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Two centuries later it was worked out by one of their scientists, and the warless Ones had a War of defense.”
      “Stewart thought that the neglect of the dream in Western education was a blind spot that made us stop short of a crimeless, warless civilization.”
      “Neither history or fiction would be very delightful if they were warless.”
warsome
  1. Characterised or marked by war
warriorlike
  1. like a warrior
warly
  1. (archaic) Warlike.
warred
warrayed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of warray
warraying
  1. present participle of warray
warreyed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of warrey
warreying
  1. present participle of warrey
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