Belligerent vs Conflicting - What's the difference?
belligerent | conflicting |
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
Striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.
Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.
* 1999 , Herre van Oostendorp, Susan R. Goldman, The construction of mental representations during reading
*:On the other hand, the more effective the current activation vector is in reactivating the conflicting information, the more likely the two conflicting pieces of information are to be coactivated.
* 1841 , Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop Chapter 73
*:Of Sally Brass, conflicting rumours went abroad. Some said with confidence that she had gone down to the docks in male attire, and had become a female sailor; others darkly whispered that she had enlisted as a private in the second regiment of Foot Guards, and had been seen in uniform, and on duty, to wit, leaning on her musket and looking out of a sentry-box in St james's Park, one evening.
As adjectives the difference between belligerent and conflicting
is that belligerent is engaged in warfare, warring while conflicting is striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.As a noun belligerent
is a state or other armed participant in warfare.As a verb conflicting is
.belligerent
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 .
See also
* warmonger ----conflicting
English
(Webster 1828)Adjective
(en adjective)- In the absence of all conflicting evidence.