'Fighting' definitions:
Definition of 'fighting'
From: WordNet
adjective
Engaged in or ready for military or naval operations; "on active duty"; "the platoon is combat-ready"; "review the fighting forces" [syn: active, combat-ready, fighting(a)]
noun
Definition of 'Fighting'
From: GCIDE
- Fight \Fight\ (f[imac]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fought (f[add]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Fighting.] [OE. fihten, fehten, AS. feohtan; akin to D. vechten, OHG. fehtan, G. fechten, Sw. f[aum]kta, Dan. fegte, and perh. to E. fist; cf. L. pugnare to fight, pugnus fist.]
- 1. To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against. [1913 Webster]
- You do fight against your country's foes. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To fight with thee no man of arms will deign. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance. [1913 Webster]
- To fight shy, to avoid meeting fairly or at close quarters; to keep out of reach. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fighting'
From: GCIDE
- Fighting \Fight"ing\, a.
- 1. Qualified for war; fit for battle. [1913 Webster]
- An host of fighting men. --2 Chron. xxvi. 11. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. [Colloq.]
- Fighting crab (Zool.), the fiddler crab.
- Fighting fish (Zool.), a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish (Betta pugnax), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fighting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aggressive,
- all-out war,
- altercation,
- antagonistic,
- appeal to arms,
- argument,
- armed combat,
- armed conflict,
- attack,
- battle,
- battling,
- bellicose,
- belligerence,
- belligerency,
- belligerent,
- bickering,
- bloodshed,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- bout,
- boxing,
- boxing match,
- cat-and-dog life,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- Chinese boxing,
- close fighting,
- combat,
- combative,
- conflict,
- contending,
- contention,
- contentious,
- contentiousness,
- contest,
- contestant,
- contestation,
- contesting,
- controversy,
- cut and thrust,
- debate,
- disputant,
- disputation,
- dispute,
- enemy,
- enmity,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fisticuffs,
- full of fight,
- hawkish,
- hostile,
- hostilities,
- hostility,
- hot war,
- infighting,
- inimical,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- Kilkenny cats,
- la guerre,
- litigation,
- logomachy,
- martial,
- might of arms,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- military operations,
- offensive,
- open hostilities,
- open war,
- paper war,
- polemic,
- prizefight,
- prizefighting,
- pugilism,
- pugnacious,
- quarrel,
- quarreling,
- quarrelsome,
- quarrelsomeness,
- resort to arms,
- saber-rattling,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- savate,
- scrapping,
- scrappy,
- shadowboxing,
- shooting war,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- spar,
- squabbling,
- state of war,
- strife,
- striving,
- struggle,
- struggling,
- the clinches,
- the fights,
- the ring,
- the sword,
- total war,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- unfriendly,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- war,
- war of words,
- warfare,
- warlike,
- warmaking,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wartime,
- words,
- wrangling
Words containing 'Fighting'
- Fight,
- Fightingly,
- To fight it out,
- fight down,
- fight off,
- A fighting chance,
- Fighting crab,
- Fighting fish,
- Glove fight,
- Prize fight,
- Prize fighting,
- Running fight,
- Sea fight,
- Sword fight,
- To fight at barriers,
- To fight shy,
- fight back,
- fight shy,
- fighting chair,
- fighting cock,
- fighting french,
- fighting man,
- gang fight,
- in-fighting,
- knife fight,
- pillow fight,
- proxy fight,
- street fight,
- Close-fights,
- bun-fight,
- chicken-fight,
- fighting joe hooker,
- libyan fighting group,
- close-quarter fighting,
- libyan islamic fighting group