bellicose
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Latin bellicosus.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
bellicose (comparative more bellicose, superlative most bellicose)
- Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- The core Ice Age cast—wooly mammoth Manny (Ray Romano), sabertooth tiger Diego (Denis Leary), and sloth Sid (John Leguizamo)—are set adrift, sailing the high seas on a chunk of ice until they collide with a bellicose primate (Peter Dinklage).
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- Showing or having the impulse to be combative.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:combative
Antonyms
Related terms
Coordinate terms
Translations
warlike in nature
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having the impulse to be combative
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Italian
Adjective
bellicose f pl
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) bellicōse
References
- bellicose in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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