Armed vs Martial - What's the difference?
armed | martial | Related terms |
(sometimes, in combination) Equipped, especially with a weapon.
(of a weapon) Prepared for use; loaded.
(obsolete) Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.
* De Foe
(arm)
(chiefly, in combination) Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type.
Coloured in a different tincture from the beast or bird itself.
Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.
* Dryden
Relating to or connected with the armed forces or the profession of arms or military life.
(comparable) Characteristic of or befitting a warrior; having a military bearing; soldierly, soldierlike, warriorlike.
(medicine, chemistry, obsolete) Relating to, or containing, iron; chalybeate.
As adjectives the difference between armed and martial
is that armed is equipped, especially with a weapon while martial is of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.As a verb armed
is past tense of arm.As a proper noun Martial is
a given name derived from Latin narrowly applied to certain historic persons (but some of its foreign cognates are modern given names).armed
English
Etymology 1
See the verb .Adjective
(en adjective)- nuclear-armed
- a distemper eminently armed from heaven
Derived terms
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(head)Etymology 2
.Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Anagrams
* ----martial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But peaceful kings, o'er martial people set, / Each other's poise and counterbalance are.
- martial preparations
- martial flowers: a reddish crystalline salt of iron