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Bellicose vs Adversarial - What's the difference?

bellicose | adversarial |

As adjectives the difference between bellicose and adversarial

is that bellicose is warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile while adversarial is characteristic of, or in the manner of, an adversary; combative, hostile, opposed.

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

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * pacific

    adversarial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characteristic of, or in the manner of, an adversary; combative, hostile, opposed
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial . }}

    Antonyms

    * cooperative

    Derived terms

    * adversarial system * adversarially