Militant vs Feisty - What's the difference?
militant | feisty |
Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike.
* 2012 , (Christopher Clark), The Sleepwalkers , Penguin 2013, p. 394:
Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative.
(obsolete) A soldier, a combatant.
An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction.
* 2008', '' , Wikinews:
Specifically, someone who supports the Trotskyite political view expressed in the newspaper Militant , or who engages in aggressive left-wing politics.
Tenacious, energetic, spunky.
Belligerent; prepared to stand and fight, especially in spite of relatively small stature or some other disadvantage.
Easily offended and ready to bicker.
As adjectives the difference between militant and feisty
is that militant is fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike while feisty is tenacious, energetic, spunky.As a noun militant
is (obsolete) a soldier, a combatant.militant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The upper tiers of the foreign ministry were quick to embrace a militant policy.
Noun
(wikipedia militant) (en noun)- Officials in Pakistan have confirmed that at least 250 schoolchildren between 12 and 18 years old and several teachers were taken hostage by at least seven militants inside a high school in Domail.
