warmonger
/ˈwɔː.mʌŋ.ɡə/US/ˈwoɹˌmɑŋ.ɡɚ/
warmonger noun: someone who advocates war to an enthusiastic or ardent degree.
Noun
warmonger (plural warmongers)
- Someone who advocates war to an enthusiastic or ardent degree.
- Wham! Overnight he [Dwight D. Eisenhower] became a warmonger.1952 September 22, “Since Stevenson Prefers 'Compromise', Foreign Policy Is Squarely in the Campaign”, in LIFE, volume 33, number 12, Time Inc., →ISSN, page 30
- Do you hear revolution's call? / Time to fight our own denial / Warmongers keep us locked in fear / Invoke the past, a moment of tears / An ugly truth put forth by our youth / Under the threat of patriotic brute / So use your rage / It is a weapon we now must engage / Let trumpets sound our call /...2007, “Clenching the Fists of Dissent”, in Robb Flynn (lyrics), The Blackening, performed by Machine Head, Track 1
- Synonyms:
- bellicist, hawk, jingoist, militarist, war hawk
- A mercenary soldier.
- With that, out of his bouget forth he drew
Great ſtore of treaſure, therewith him to tempt;
But he on it lookt ſcornefully askew,
As much diſdeigning to be ſo miſdempt,
Or a war-monger to be baſely nempt;1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 550
- With that, out of his bouget forth he drew
Verb
warmonger (third-person singular simple present warmongers, present participle warmongering, simple past and past participle warmongered)
warmonger meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Arabic
warmonger in Tamil
- போரை ஆதரிப்பவர், போர் நாடுபவர்
warmonger in Urdu
- جنگ افروز, جنگ جو
warmonger in Malayalam
- jingoist, militarist, hawk
- യുദ്ധം വരുത്തിവയ്ക്കാൻ ശ്രമിക്കുന്നയാൾ, യുദ്ധപ്രിയൻ, യുദ്ധസന്നദ്ധനായ, യുദ്ധോത്സുകൻ, നയതന്ത്രത്തിൽ കർക്കശ നിലപാടെടുക്കുന്നയാൾ, പോരുകാരൻ
warmonger in Arabic
- one who advocates war
- مُحَرِّض حَرْب muḥarriḍ ḥarb, مُحَرِّضَة حَرْب
More languagesFewer languages
- warmonger in Thai
- ผู้กระหายสงคราม pûu-grà-hǎai-sǒng-kraam
- warmonger in Vietnamese
- kẻ hiếu chiến, kẻ gây chiến
Examples of warmonger in a sentence
- “But it seems to me like what we’ve got are warmongers claiming other people are war criminals.2017 January 13, Andrey Kaczynski, quoting Dana Rohrabacher, “GOP congressman: ‘Warmongers’ in Congress are wrong to call Putin a ‘war...
- “He’s a 70-year-old childless warmonger and he has no stake in the future of this country,” Dans said.2025 July 28, Steve Contorno, quoting Paul Dans, “Project 2025 architect Paul Dans to challenge Lindsey Graham for Senate in South...
Synonyms of warmonger
Forms of warmonger
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | warmongers |
| alternative form | war-monger |
| alternative form | war monger |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | warmongers |
| present participle | warmongering |
| past participle | warmongered |
| past | warmongered |
Origin of warmonger
From war + monger.
Words formed from warmonger
Questions about warmonger
- What does warmonger mean?
- Warmonger means someone who advocates war to an enthusiastic or ardent degree.
- What is warmonger in Tamil?
- Warmonger in Tamil is போரை ஆதரிப்பவர், போர் நாடுபவர். See Warmonger meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use warmonger in a sentence?
- “But it seems to me like what we’ve got are warmongers claiming other people are war criminals.
- What part of speech is warmonger?
- Warmonger can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce warmonger?
- Warmonger is pronounced /ˈwɔː.mʌŋ.ɡə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of warmonger?
- The plural of warmonger is warmongers.
Words near warmonger in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: warmonger (page history and authors); warmonger (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); warmonger (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); warmonger (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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.
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