Word.ws English Dictionary

war of aggression

war of aggression noun: a military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense, usually for territorial gain and subjugation.

Noun

war of aggression (plural wars of aggression)

  1. (international law) A military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense, usually for territorial gain and subjugation.
    • The crime of war, the crime of the war of aggression, and the crime of aggression are clearly three different crimes with three different facts of the case. For a complex judgment of war, they nonetheless overlap with one another, and their separation seems to a large section of public opinion a...2011, Carl Schmitt, edited by Timothy Nunan, Writings on War, Polity, →ISBN, page 149
    Synonyms:
    war of conquest
    Antonyms:
    just war

war of aggression meaning in Vietnamese

war of aggression in Vietnamese

military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense, usually for territorial gain and subjugation
chiến tranh xâm lược

Synonyms of war of aggression

Antonyms

Forms of war of aggression

pluralwars of aggression

Questions about war of aggression

What does war of aggression mean?
War of aggression means a military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense, usually for territorial gain and subjugation.
What is war of aggression in Vietnamese?
War of aggression in Vietnamese is chiến tranh xâm lược. See War of aggression meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is war of aggression?
War of aggression is a noun.
What is the plural of war of aggression?
The plural of war of aggression is wars of aggression.

Words near war of aggression in the dictionary

  1. war monger
  2. war mongers
  3. war movie
  4. war movies
  5. War of 1812
  6. war of aggression
  7. war of attrition
  8. War of Canudos
  9. war of choice
  10. war of conquest
  11. war of flowers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: war of aggression (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-war of aggression.wav.

Cite this entry: “war of aggression.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/war_of_aggression. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.