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Bellicose vs Unbellicose - What's the difference?

bellicose | unbellicose |

As adjectives the difference between bellicose and unbellicose

is that bellicose is warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile while unbellicose is not bellicose; unwarlike.

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

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    Antonyms

    * pacific

    unbellicose

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not bellicose; unwarlike.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 19, author=David M. Kennedy, title=What History Is Good For, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Small wonder that history has become such a hotly contested battleground, or that otherwise unbellicose professors are so often pressed into front-line service in the culture wars. }}