All combatant synonyms
com·bat·ant
C c noun combatant
- attack — To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
- soldier — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- assailant — Someone's assailant is a person who has physically attacked them.
- adversary — Your adversary is someone you are competing with, or arguing or fighting against.
- antagonist — Your antagonist is your opponent or enemy.
- serviceman — a member of the armed forces of a country.
- warrior — a person engaged or experienced in warfare; soldier.
- belligerent — A belligerent person is hostile and aggressive.
- contender — A contender is someone who takes part in a competition.
- foe — a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy: a bitter foe.
- battler — a hostile encounter or engagement between opposing military forces: the battle of Waterloo.
- fighter — a boxer; pugilist.
- participant — a person or group that participates; partaker.
- opponent — a person who is on an opposing side in a game, contest, controversy, or the like; adversary.
- competitor — A company's competitors are companies who are trying to sell similar goods or services to the same people.
- attacker — You can refer to a person who attacks someone as their attacker.
adjective combatant
- warmongering — the practices and principles of a warmonger.
- warring — a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
- soldierly — of, like, or befitting a soldier.
- military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- militaristic — a person imbued with militarism.
- rival — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.