belligerent Add to list Share. If someone is belligerent, they're eager to fight. It's a good idea to avoid hardcore hockey fans after their team loses — they tend to be belligerent.
adjective. Someone who is argumentative is always ready to disagree or start arguing with other people. [disapproval] You're in an argumentative mood today! Synonyms: quarrelsome, contrary, contentious, belligerent More Synonyms of argumentative.
belligerent, bellicose, pugnacious, quarrelsome, contentious mean having an aggressive or fighting attitude. belligerent often implies being actually at war or engaged in hostilities. belligerent nations.
It might be you deeply crave real connection, attention, and intimacy, but don't know how to get it in healthy ways. Fighting and its aftermath might be the only way you know to create that close feeling.
1. : a person devoted to logical disputation. : the art or practice of disputation and polemics.
That all varies from fighter to fighter but one thing they all seem to love about it is the adrenaline rush. Some fighters have said their favourite part is the walk-in, taking in every moment. Then with a more serious response: “It's the ultimate rush.
incite, instigate, abet, foment mean to spur to action. incite stresses a stirring up and urging on, and may or may not imply initiating. inciting a riot.
sadist Add to list Share. A sadist is someone who enjoys inflicting pain on others, sometimes in a sexual sense. Sadists like seeing other people hurt.
Combat junkies are a whirlwind on the battlefield, giving each foe or foes their full attention as they advance to fell them all.
People with argumentative personalities are usually self-absorbed. They often find fault with everything or don't agree with anything you say. Their favorite phrases are: You're wrong.
Definitions of instigator. someone who deliberately foments trouble. “she was the instigator of their quarrel” synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigant, provoker. types: ringleader.
In fact, the researcher say, humans seem to crave violence just like they do sex, food or drugs. Scientists have known that mice and other animals are drawn to fights. Until now, they didn't know how the brain was involved.
The word “histrionic” means “dramatic or theatrical.”
If you call someone a masochist, you either mean that they take pleasure in pain, or — perhaps more commonly — that they just seem to. Masochism is an eponym — a word named for a person.
belligerent, bellicose, pugnacious, quarrelsome, contentious mean having an aggressive or fighting attitude. belligerent often implies being actually at war or engaged in hostilities. belligerent nations. bellicose suggests a disposition to fight.
1. Irritable, testy, touchy, irascible are adjectives meaning easily upset, offended, or angered. Irritable means easily annoyed or bothered, and it implies cross and snappish behavior: an irritable clerk, rude and hostile; Impatient and irritable, he was constantly complaining.
Instigation is the act of urging on. An instigator is the person who instigates. Instigate is usually (but not always) a negative word used to describe a sinister action intended to provoke or generate a negative outcome.
It is possible that you lack confidence and a sense of self-worth, and seek it through aggression and arguments; counselling can help you resolve this. When you begin to feel true confidence, the need for arguments and conflict will start to abate.
Seeing violence allows us to reflect on the human condition, an experience we value. Other theories are also out there. “Excitation transfer theory” suggests that watching violence makes us aroused, a feeling that persists until the end of the show, making the end feel more pleasing.
Violent personality includes at the minimum the factors and behavior outlined in the DSM-5 for Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD). Other common diagnoses for violent personality include Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder, and Schizoid Personality Disorder.
But oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) includes a frequent and ongoing pattern of anger, irritability, arguing and defiance toward parents and other authority figures. ODD also includes being spiteful and seeking revenge, a behavior called vindictiveness.