Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament. See Synonyms at belligerent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Inclined or tending to war; warlike; pugnacious: as, bellicose sentiments.
Wiktionary
- adj. Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
- adj. Showing or having the impulse to be combative.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Latin bellicosus (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Latin bellicōsus, from bellicus, of war, from bellum, war. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If his subject is peace, he will have to know that this Island is not immersed in bellicose conflict, but neither does it know concord.”
“To put it simply: this President is not interested in bellicose rhetoric, he is focused on action," Pffiefer writes.”
“What I hate about this that it reinforces the idea that being bellicose is being strong.”
“There were some clamours at this, and although it was now dinner-time Phineas Finn, who had been called a bellicose”
“Finn, who had been called a bellicose Irishman, was able to say a word or two.”
“For instance, North Korea over the past week has issued several statements lashing out at Mr. Lee for calling the North "bellicose" in an interview last month.”
“Wonder whether Mr. Alexander will read and actually absorb "bellicose" commentaries like these.”
A. Siegel: WashPost Ombudsman Steps up and Steps in it -- Plus Another Will Fabrication
“Again, I go back to their problem is they're sort of addicted to their sort of the talk radio southern base that likes that kind of bellicose language.”
“Hauser also criticized McCain for his "bellicose" and "threatening" rhetoric toward Russia in response to the Georgian crisis whereas Obama was far more willing to engage the international community while still remaining firm.”
“John sometimes ... [is] given to this kind of bellicose rhetoric, which has a tendency to inflame conflicts rather than to diffuse them.”
The Washington Post: Gates, Rice say Russia will face consequences
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bellicose’.
-
501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
-
Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
-
501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
-
SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
-
From reading
Collected from reading
venerate, reprobate, reticent, adoration, ethereal, ephemeral, equivocal, contumacious, heinous, solicitous, agnostic, aberration and 335 more...
-
501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
-
501
Classic
bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado, toil, onus, aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august and 401 more...
-
Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2042 more...
-
Quacksalvers et al. Nostrum
Bring forth the cathartic illumination on malignant,maniacal,medical,menage a trios and more egotists stymie
culpability, piousfraud, capacitous, rhabdomyolysis, scapula, idiosyncrasy, quiescent, malignant, nefarious, sociological, sociopath, pathogen and 202 more...
-
Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 566 more...
-
New Words
Words I want to add to my working vocabulary.
picayune, elision, intimated, modicum, non sequitur, insouciant, vituperate, asperity, perfidious, gainsay, fulmination, inimical and 11 more...
-
GRE
sycophant, obsequious, volubility, equanimity, enervate, effrontery, impertinent, platitude, impudence, quiescent, propitiate, equivocate and 103 more...
-
gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1523 more...
-
Go over
mollify, obstinate, obviate, occlude, onerous, obscure, paragon, pedantic, perfunctory, placate, placid, prodigal and 364 more...
-
SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
-
apjoseph's words
insurmountable, ubiquitous, unequivocal, incumbent, asinine, amenable, sycophants, precarious, malevolent, gregarious, raison detra, nefarious and 200 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bellicose.
myth17 Glucose and Bellicose :P Aug 9, 2012
myth17 Glucose and Bellicose :P Aug 9, 2012