Bombastic vs Bellicose - What's the difference?
bombastic | bellicose |
showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
High-sounding but with little meaning.
(archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
Showing or having the impulse to be combative.
As adjectives the difference between bombastic and bellicose
is that bombastic is showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous while bellicose is warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.bombastic
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Alternative forms
* bombastick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (pompous or overly wordy) blustering, grandiloquent, pompous, verbose, florid * inflated, turgidAntonyms
* (pompous or overly wordy) concise, succinctDescendants
* French: bombastique * Spanish: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).