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Bellicose vs Spiteful - What's the difference?

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Bellicose is a related term of spiteful.


As adjectives the difference between bellicose and spiteful

is that bellicose is warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile while spiteful is filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious.

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

    spiteful

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Alternative forms

    * spightful (obsolete) * spightfull (obsolete) * spitefull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious

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