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Antagonistic vs Bellicose - What's the difference?

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Antagonistic is a related term of bellicose.


As adjectives the difference between antagonistic and bellicose

is that antagonistic is contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces while bellicose is warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.

antagonistic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces.
  • * Milman
    • They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic .
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    bellicose

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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).
  • Showing or having the impulse to be combative.

    • Related terms

    * bellicosity * bellicism * bellicist

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    * pacific