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What is the adjective for military?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs militarize and militarise which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

military
  1. Characteristic of members of the armed forces.
  2. (Canada) Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces).
  3. Relating to war.
  4. Relating to armies or ground forces.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Men from the regiment gave military displays and demonstrated how to load muskets.”
      “The situation was further complicated by the intervention of Sir Harford Jones, the London emissary who was able to achieve by sensible negotiations what Malcolm could not do by his pompous attitude and his military threats.”
militaristic
  1. Using the power of the military.
  2. Related to the use of the military.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Their look could be a described as militaristic, cartoon characters, but their sound is pure modern power pop.”
      “But how can it work under the threat of force from an aggressive militaristic power?”
      “As the epigram to this article demonstrates, militaristic language dramatized the contest beyond mere political fortunes.”
militarylike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a military.
militarizable
  1. Capable of being militarized.
militaric
  1. (military, rare) Of or pertaining to a military.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The militaric strategies employed by the general proved to be highly effective in securing victory for the troop.”
militarical
  1. (military, very rare) Of or pertaining to a military.
  2. Synonyms:
militaresque
  1. Of or relating to the military
militar
  1. Obsolete form of military.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Born in 1856 in Pefiacastillo, Santander, Don Venancio attended the Academia Militar de Caballeria graduating in 1879 as a second lieutenant and first in his class.”
militarized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of militarize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The government's response to the uprising was to deploy militarized forces to control the situation and maintain order.”
militarizing
militarised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of militarise
militarising
  1. present participle of militarise
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