Bellicose vs Belligerent - What's the difference?
bellicose | belligerent | Synonyms |
Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
Showing or having the impulse to be combative.
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
Belligerent is a synonym of bellicose.
Belligerent is a related term of bellicose.
As adjectives the difference between bellicose and belligerent
is that bellicose is warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile while belligerent is engaged in warfare, warring.As a noun belligerent is
a state or other armed participant in warfare.bellicose
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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).
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* pacificbelligerent
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 .