Warlike vs Soldierly - What's the difference?
warlike | soldierly | Synonyms |
Hostile and belligerent.
Martial, bellicose or militaristic.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= In the way of, or appropriate to, a soldier.
:His soldierly demeanor stood him good stead in civilian life when vicissitudes would assail him.
Warlike is a synonym of soldierly.
As adjectives the difference between warlike and soldierly
is that warlike is hostile and belligerent while soldierly is in the way of, or appropriate to, a soldier.warlike
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Adjective
(en adjective)Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}