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Bellicose vs Barbarious - What's the difference?

bellicose | barbarious |

As adjectives the difference between bellicose and barbarious

is that bellicose is warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile while barbarious is barbarous, barbaric.

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

    barbarious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • barbarous, barbaric.
  • * 1776 ,
    • During that calamitous period, every instant of time was marked, every province of the Roman world was afflicted, by barbarious invaders and military tyrants, and the ruined empire seemed to approach the last and fatal moment of its dissolution.
  • * 1874 , , page 219
  • *:"Well, it seems a barbarious practice enough to us, but I daresay the natives think nothing o' it," said Matthew.
  • * 1941 , , The Colossus of Maroussi , page 143
    • The game is played out, the figures have melted away, the lines are frazzled, the board is mildewed. Everything has become barbarious again.

    Usage notes

    * Sometimes considered non-standard.