Appease vs Belligerent - What's the difference?
appease | belligerent |
To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
To come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of.
Engaged in warfare, warring.
Eager to go to war, warlike.
Of or pertaining to war.
(By extension) Aggressively hostile, eager to fight.
violently towards others.
A state or other armed participant in warfare
As a verb appease
is to make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).As an adjective belligerent is
engaged in warfare, warring.As a noun belligerent is
a state or other armed participant in warfare.appease
English
Verb
(appeas)- to appease the tumult of the ocean
- `First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well be quiet. It is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!'
- They appeased the angry gods with burnt offerings.
Synonyms
* (reduce to a state of peace) calm, pacify, placate, quell, quiet, still, lull * (come to terms with) mollify, propitiateAntonyms
* antagonizeDerived terms
() * appeaser * appeasement * appeasatoryExternal links
* *belligerent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (eager to fight) aggressive, antagonistic, bellicose, combative, contentious, pugnacious, quarrelsome, truculentDerived terms
* belligerently * cobelligerentNoun
(en noun)- The U.N. sent a treaty proposal to the belligerents .