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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament. See Synonyms at belligerent.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Inclined or tending to war; warlike; pugnacious: as, bellicose sentiments.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
  2. adj. Showing or having the impulse to be combative.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Latin bellicosus (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Latin bellicōsus, from bellicus, of war, from bellum, war. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • myth17 Glucose and Bellicose :P Aug 9, 2012

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