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Derisive vs Belligerent - What's the difference?

derisive | belligerent |

As adjectives the difference between derisive and belligerent

is that derisive is expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing while belligerent is engaged in warfare, warring.

As a noun belligerent is

a state or other armed participant in warfare.

derisive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.
    • The critic's review of the film was derisive .
  • Deserving or provoking derision or ridicule.
    • The plot of the film was so derisive that the audience began to jeer.

    Synonyms

    * (expressing or characterized by derision) mocking, ridiculing, scornful, disdainful * (deserving or provoking derision) ridiculous

    Derived terms

    * derisively

    Related terms

    * deride * derider * derisible * derision * derisionary

    References

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    Anagrams

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    belligerent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (eager to fight) aggressive, antagonistic, bellicose, combative, contentious, pugnacious, quarrelsome, truculent

    Derived terms

    * belligerently * cobelligerent

    Related terms

    * bellicose * belligerence * belligerency

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A state or other armed participant in warfare
    • The U.N. sent a treaty proposal to the belligerents .

    See also

    * warmonger ----