Incensed vs Belligerent - What's the difference?
incensed | belligerent |
Enraged]]; [[infuriate, infuriated; spitefully or furiously angry.
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(incense)
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
As adjectives the difference between incensed and belligerent
is that incensed is enraged; infuriated; spitefully or furiously angry while belligerent is engaged in warfare, warring.As a verb incensed
is past tense of incense.As a noun belligerent is
a state or other armed participant in warfare.incensed
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Ferguson was incensed as referee Martin Atkinson pointed to the spot - and United's sense of injustice deepened when Nemanja Vidic was sent off in stoppage time after receiving a second yellow card for a foul on Ramires, ruling the centre-back out of the visit to Liverpool on Sunday. }}
Verb
(head)belligerent
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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 .