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Bellicose vs Rancorous - What's the difference?

bellicose | rancorous | Related terms |

Bellicose is a related term of rancorous.


As adjectives the difference between bellicose and rancorous

is that bellicose is warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile while rancorous is full of rancor; bitter; unforgiving.

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

    rancorous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * rancourous

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Full of rancor; bitter; unforgiving.
    • rancorous speech

    Synonyms

    * malicious * resentful * venomous