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Leonine vs Bellicose - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between leonine and bellicose

is that leonine is of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the lion while bellicose is warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.

leonine

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the lion.
    • His leonine face scared the young children.
  • * 1887 , , What I Remember, Volume 2 , chapter XIV ( ebook):
    • He [Landor] was a man of somewhat leonine aspect as regards the general appearance and expression of the head and face, which accorded well with the large and massive build of the figure, and to which a superbly curling white beard added not only picturesqueness, but a certain nobility.

    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

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * pacific