Altercative
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Altercative is an adjective meaning (rare) Characterized by altercation.
Meaning
(rare) Characterized by altercation.
Example Sentences
His cab, delayed by a red newspaper cart, jammed in altercative contact with a dray full of brown barrels, paused in Cannon Street.
1731, Henry Fielding, The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, London: J. Roberts, Act II, Scene 7, p. 30, footnote z, I know some of the Commentators have imagined, that Mr. Dryden, in the Altercative Scene between Cleopatra and Octavia […] is much beholden to our Author.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include adversarious, collitigant, disturbant, thwartsome, discordaunt, absonant.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.