COUNTERPUNCHERS Antonyms

• tough and callous by virtue of experience

• ready and able to resort to force or violence

• someone who attacks

• a confident assertive person who acts as instigator

• someone who attacks

• someone who attacks

• a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls)

• someone who fights (or is fighting)

• a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air

• someone who fights for a cause

• (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting

• someone who hits

• a person who initiates a course of action

• a forward on a soccer team

• someone receiving intensive training for a naval technical rating

• an employee on strike against an employer

• someone who hits

• the part of a mechanical device that strikes something