About The Word Bellicose
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Bellicose
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What's The Definition Of Bellicose?
[adj] having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Bellicose: aggressive | battleful | combative | contentious Related Terms | Find terms related to Bellicose: aggressive | antagonistic | assertive | battling | belligerent | bickering | bloodthirsty | bloody | bloody-minded | chauvinist | chauvinistic | combative | contentious | disputatious | divisive | enemy | eristic | factional | factious | ferocious | fierce | fighting | full of fight | hawkish | hostile | inimical | irascible | irritable | jingo | jingoish | jingoist | jingoistic | litigious | martial | militant | militaristic | military | offensive | partisan | polarizing | polemic | pugnacious | quarrelsome | rebellious | saber-rattling | sanguinary | sanguineous | savage | scrappy | shrewish | soldierlike | soldierly | trigger-happy | truculent | unfriendly | unpacific | unpeaceable | unpeaceful | warlike | warmongering | warring | wrangling See Also | Bellicose In Webster's Dictionary \Bel"li*cose`\, a. [L. bellicosus, fr. bellicus of
war, fr. bellum war. See {Duel}.]
Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.
Arnold was, in fact, in a bellicose vein. --W. Irving.
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