Belligerent vs Volatile - What's the difference?
belligerent | volatile |
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
(physics) evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
(of a substance, informal) explosive.
(of a price etc) variable or erratic.
(of a person) quick to become angry or violent.
fickle.
temporary or ephemeral.
(of a situation) potentially violent.
(computing, of a variable) having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
(computing, of memory) whose content is lost when the computer is powered down
(obsolete) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.
As adjectives the difference between belligerent and volatile
is that belligerent is engaged in warfare, warring while volatile is (physics) evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.As a noun belligerent
is a state or other armed participant in warfare.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 .