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adjectiveinclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious. Origin of bellicose1400–50; late Middle English <Latin bellicōsus, equivalent to bellic(us) pertaining to war (bell(um) war + -icus-ic) + -ōsus-ose1 OTHER WORDS FROM bellicosebel·li·cose·ly, adverbbel·li·cos·i·ty [bel-i-kos-i-tee], /ˌbɛl ɪˈkɒs ɪ ti/, bel·li·cose·ness, nounun·bel·li·cose, adjectiveWords nearby bellicosebellhanger, bell-hanger's bit, bell heather, bellhop, bell housing, bellicose, bellied, belligerati, belligerence, belligerency, belligerent Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for bellicoseIn the last decades of his life he became reclusive and bellicose. Why Can’t Movies Capture Genius?|Clive Irving|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST This explains why the Tea Party faithful often appear to be so bellicose. The Tea Party Isn’t a Political Movement, It’s a Religious One|Jack Schwartz|July 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST In 2009 he published a book defaming Hitchens and Richard Dawkins because he was irked by their bellicose brand of atheism. Do We Need to Be Told How to Read?|William Giraldi|June 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST China is clearly frustrated with its destitute, bellicose neighbor. Hey, Obama: Keep Out of North Korea|Peter Beinart|April 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
She contrasted its timidity with a bellicose anti-Hagel salvo from the Christian-right group Concerned Women for America. The GOP’s Steep Descent Into Extreme Politics and Doctrine|Peter Beinart|February 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST Be that as it may, the eyes of all rest upon the same unwarlike pictures torn from the same least bellicose journal. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, May 24, 1916|Various I dare not speak, or could have asked them their mission, and they seemed quite dumbfounded at my bellicose attitude towards them. This seemed to suit his bellicose eminence and to appeal to his barbaric vanity. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences|Nebraska Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Herein it recalls in some respects the bellicose pacifism of the too celebrated Ostwald. Above the Battle|Romain Rolland Naturally those parts of the river which remained unexplored were supposed to be the land of the "bellicose dames." Female Warriors, Vol. I (of 2)|Ellen C. Clayton
British Dictionary definitions for bellicose
adjectivewarlike; aggressive; ready to fight Derived forms of bellicosebellicosely, adverbbellicosity (ˌbɛlɪˈkɒsɪtɪ), nounWord Origin for bellicoseC15: from Latin bellicōsus, from bellum war Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to bellicoseantagonistic, combative, threatening, aggressive, argumentative, hostile, pugnacious, quarrelsome, warlike, warring |