Definition of bellicose in English:

bellicose

adjective ˈbɛlɪkəʊsˈbɛləˌkoʊs

Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight.
a mood of bellicose jingoism
Example sentencesExamples
- Yet it is also a fact that the Administration has quietly backed down from a number of its most bellicose threats.
- When reason is abdicated and replaced by the bellicose creeds of opposing religions, peace is impossible.
- The fans also have their say and again the attitudes are conversational rather than bellicose and confrontational.
- By game time, fans were a bellicose, red-faced, shouting mob.
- The bellicose atmosphere in both cities cannot be ignored: stances are being hardened and war seems more or less inevitable.
- In contrast, moderate voices are rarely heard and often relentlessly overruled by barrages of bellicose opinions.
- I sometimes ask people the question: what do you do when you serve a bellicose president who wants to go to war?
- The Presidents's language has certainly reflected this - as the days have gone by, his speeches have become more and more bellicose.
- The Presidents's bellicose posture arose from weakness, not strength.
- For eight years the policy of containment has worked and despite the bellicose rhetoric being bandied about last week, it will probably continue.
- The tone of his speech was bellicose and threatening.
- After a number of recent battles, in which quite a few hundred people have been slaughtered, the sensitive politician might want to avoid the use of bellicose imagery.
- But other less bellicose, parallel approaches should still be considered.
- I've known many fighters, and most of them tend to be rather bellicose.
- It was a particularly bellicose speech, and living in occupied West Berlin, within a mile of the Wall, it had a particularly scary resonance.
- And people in charge of both governments have become more bellicose by the day.
- At the end of the 19th century, people were full of hope and expectations of a more peaceful, more contented, less bellicose world.
- At the time, the government was very bellicose about a military campaign.
- We won't know until the inspectors get there what his frame of mind is, but it's pretty bellicose in the meantime.
- Heritage-rich nations and tribal groups alike sound bellicose in defence of heritage whose attrition they are impotent to prevent.
Synonyms
belligerent, aggressive, hostile, threatening, antagonistic, pugnacious, truculent, confrontational, argumentative, quarrelsome, disputatious, contentious, militant, combative
quick-tempered, hot-tempered, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, irascible, captious
informal spoiling for a fight
British informal stroppy, bolshie
North American informal scrappy
rare oppugnant

Derivatives

bellicosity

noun bɛlɪˈkɒsətiˌbɛləˈkɑsədi

And we in turn have resorted to bellicosity at a level that may or may not be justified.
Example sentencesExamples
- Will a photograph incite anti-war sentiment, or inspire even greater bellicosity?
- It seems like we're all taken with wealth and bellicosity on some fundamental level.
- There is an argument for saying that, as we enter a new century, we would do well to put such bellicosity behind us.
- So far, all the running for a ‘regime change’, as it is delicately known, has come from the president and his main security advisers, but for all their bellicosity they cannot declare war unilaterally.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin bellicosus, from bellicus 'warlike', from bellum 'war'.

rebel from Middle English:
The Latin word rebellis was originally used in reference to someone making a fresh declaration of war after being defeated. The root was bellum ‘war’, as in bellicose (Late Middle English) or ‘warlike’, combined with re- ‘again’. A person who is deeply dissatisfied by society in general but does not have a specific aim to fight for might be described as a rebel without a cause. The first such person was James Dean, star of the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause. Revel (Late Middle English) comes from the French equivalent, which developed the sense ‘to make a noise’ from the basic sense ‘to rise in rebellion’.

Definition of bellicose in US English:

bellicose

adjectiveˈbɛləˌkoʊsˈbeləˌkōs

Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight.
a group of bellicose patriots
Example sentencesExamples
- The tone of his speech was bellicose and threatening.
- It was a particularly bellicose speech, and living in occupied West Berlin, within a mile of the Wall, it had a particularly scary resonance.
- By game time, fans were a bellicose, red-faced, shouting mob.
- And people in charge of both governments have become more bellicose by the day.
- I've known many fighters, and most of them tend to be rather bellicose.
- We won't know until the inspectors get there what his frame of mind is, but it's pretty bellicose in the meantime.
- For eight years the policy of containment has worked and despite the bellicose rhetoric being bandied about last week, it will probably continue.
- The Presidents's language has certainly reflected this - as the days have gone by, his speeches have become more and more bellicose.
- In contrast, moderate voices are rarely heard and often relentlessly overruled by barrages of bellicose opinions.
- The bellicose atmosphere in both cities cannot be ignored: stances are being hardened and war seems more or less inevitable.
- After a number of recent battles, in which quite a few hundred people have been slaughtered, the sensitive politician might want to avoid the use of bellicose imagery.
- At the end of the 19th century, people were full of hope and expectations of a more peaceful, more contented, less bellicose world.
- When reason is abdicated and replaced by the bellicose creeds of opposing religions, peace is impossible.
- Heritage-rich nations and tribal groups alike sound bellicose in defence of heritage whose attrition they are impotent to prevent.
- Yet it is also a fact that the Administration has quietly backed down from a number of its most bellicose threats.
- The Presidents's bellicose posture arose from weakness, not strength.
- The fans also have their say and again the attitudes are conversational rather than bellicose and confrontational.
- At the time, the government was very bellicose about a military campaign.
- But other less bellicose, parallel approaches should still be considered.
- I sometimes ask people the question: what do you do when you serve a bellicose president who wants to go to war?
Synonyms
belligerent, aggressive, hostile, threatening, antagonistic, pugnacious, truculent, confrontational, argumentative, quarrelsome, disputatious, contentious, militant, combative

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin bellicosus, from bellicus ‘warlike’, from bellum ‘war’.

单词	bellicose
释义	Definition of bellicose in English: bellicose adjective ˈbɛlɪkəʊsˈbɛləˌkoʊs Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight. a mood of bellicose jingoism Example sentencesExamples Yet it is also a fact that the Administration has quietly backed down from a number of its most bellicose threats. When reason is abdicated and replaced by the bellicose creeds of opposing religions, peace is impossible. The fans also have their say and again the attitudes are conversational rather than bellicose and confrontational. By game time, fans were a bellicose, red-faced, shouting mob. The bellicose atmosphere in both cities cannot be ignored: stances are being hardened and war seems more or less inevitable. In contrast, moderate voices are rarely heard and often relentlessly overruled by barrages of bellicose opinions. I sometimes ask people the question: what do you do when you serve a bellicose president who wants to go to war? The Presidents's language has certainly reflected this - as the days have gone by, his speeches have become more and more bellicose. The Presidents's bellicose posture arose from weakness, not strength. For eight years the policy of containment has worked and despite the bellicose rhetoric being bandied about last week, it will probably continue. The tone of his speech was bellicose and threatening. After a number of recent battles, in which quite a few hundred people have been slaughtered, the sensitive politician might want to avoid the use of bellicose imagery. But other less bellicose, parallel approaches should still be considered. I've known many fighters, and most of them tend to be rather bellicose. It was a particularly bellicose speech, and living in occupied West Berlin, within a mile of the Wall, it had a particularly scary resonance. And people in charge of both governments have become more bellicose by the day. At the end of the 19th century, people were full of hope and expectations of a more peaceful, more contented, less bellicose world. At the time, the government was very bellicose about a military campaign. We won't know until the inspectors get there what his frame of mind is, but it's pretty bellicose in the meantime. Heritage-rich nations and tribal groups alike sound bellicose in defence of heritage whose attrition they are impotent to prevent. Synonyms belligerent, aggressive, hostile, threatening, antagonistic, pugnacious, truculent, confrontational, argumentative, quarrelsome, disputatious, contentious, militant, combative quick-tempered, hot-tempered, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, irascible, captious informal spoiling for a fight British informal stroppy, bolshie North American informal scrappy rare oppugnant Derivatives bellicosity noun bɛlɪˈkɒsətiˌbɛləˈkɑsədi And we in turn have resorted to bellicosity at a level that may or may not be justified. Example sentencesExamples Will a photograph incite anti-war sentiment, or inspire even greater bellicosity? It seems like we're all taken with wealth and bellicosity on some fundamental level. There is an argument for saying that, as we enter a new century, we would do well to put such bellicosity behind us. So far, all the running for a ‘regime change’, as it is delicately known, has come from the president and his main security advisers, but for all their bellicosity they cannot declare war unilaterally. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin bellicosus, from bellicus 'warlike', from bellum 'war'. rebel from Middle English: The Latin word rebellis was originally used in reference to someone making a fresh declaration of war after being defeated. The root was bellum ‘war’, as in bellicose (Late Middle English) or ‘warlike’, combined with re- ‘again’. A person who is deeply dissatisfied by society in general but does not have a specific aim to fight for might be described as a rebel without a cause. The first such person was James Dean, star of the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause. Revel (Late Middle English) comes from the French equivalent, which developed the sense ‘to make a noise’ from the basic sense ‘to rise in rebellion’. Definition of bellicose in US English: bellicose adjectiveˈbɛləˌkoʊsˈbeləˌkōs Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight. a group of bellicose patriots Example sentencesExamples The tone of his speech was bellicose and threatening. It was a particularly bellicose speech, and living in occupied West Berlin, within a mile of the Wall, it had a particularly scary resonance. By game time, fans were a bellicose, red-faced, shouting mob. And people in charge of both governments have become more bellicose by the day. I've known many fighters, and most of them tend to be rather bellicose. We won't know until the inspectors get there what his frame of mind is, but it's pretty bellicose in the meantime. For eight years the policy of containment has worked and despite the bellicose rhetoric being bandied about last week, it will probably continue. The Presidents's language has certainly reflected this - as the days have gone by, his speeches have become more and more bellicose. In contrast, moderate voices are rarely heard and often relentlessly overruled by barrages of bellicose opinions. The bellicose atmosphere in both cities cannot be ignored: stances are being hardened and war seems more or less inevitable. After a number of recent battles, in which quite a few hundred people have been slaughtered, the sensitive politician might want to avoid the use of bellicose imagery. At the end of the 19th century, people were full of hope and expectations of a more peaceful, more contented, less bellicose world. When reason is abdicated and replaced by the bellicose creeds of opposing religions, peace is impossible. Heritage-rich nations and tribal groups alike sound bellicose in defence of heritage whose attrition they are impotent to prevent. Yet it is also a fact that the Administration has quietly backed down from a number of its most bellicose threats. The Presidents's bellicose posture arose from weakness, not strength. The fans also have their say and again the attitudes are conversational rather than bellicose and confrontational. At the time, the government was very bellicose about a military campaign. But other less bellicose, parallel approaches should still be considered. I sometimes ask people the question: what do you do when you serve a bellicose president who wants to go to war? Synonyms belligerent, aggressive, hostile, threatening, antagonistic, pugnacious, truculent, confrontational, argumentative, quarrelsome, disputatious, contentious, militant, combative Origin Late Middle English: from Latin bellicosus, from bellicus ‘warlike’, from bellum ‘war’.
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