Adjective: militant
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more militant |
| Superlative | most militant |
Sample Sentences
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The upper tiers of the foreign ministry were quick to embrace a militant policy. [2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 394:]
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Senior members of Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian militant network blamed for the deadly Bali bombings, have announced they are disbanding the group, according to a report by a Jakarta-based think tank on Thursday. [2024 July 5, Reuters, “Militant group blamed for 2002 Bali bombings to be disbanded, say senior leaders”, in CNN, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2024:]
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The physiological state is not itself militant against erotic expression. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 6:]
Adjectives inflected like militant
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle French militant, from Latin mīlitāns, present participle of mīlitāre (“to serve as a soldier”).
Verbs referencing "militant"
Finnish Adjectives
militantti.