Fighting vs Martial - What's the difference?
fighting | martial |
Engaged in war or other conflict.
Apt to provoke a fight.
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A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight
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, passage=Then here the warres end, here[206] our fightings marde, Yet by your leave Ile stand upon my Guard. '' }}
* {{quote-book, year=1840, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Seid had fallen in the War of Tabuc, the first of Mahomet's fightings with the Greeks. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1860, author=John Yeardley, title=Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel, chapter=, edition=
, passage=A good many soldiers, and some officers, were present; but the expression of our dissent from all wars and fightings had not displeased them, for they shook hands with US most kindly. }}
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 a verb fighting
is .As an adjective fighting
is engaged in war or other conflict.As a noun fighting
is a fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight.As a proper noun martial is
narrowly applied to certain historic persons (but some of its foreign cognates are modern given names).fighting
English
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* fighting chanceAdjective
(head)- It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains.
- Them's fighting words in my country!
- Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.
Derived terms
* fighting wordsNoun
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Descendants
* Korean: (hwaiting)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