Bellicose vs Peaceful - What's the difference?
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As adjectives the difference between bellicose and peaceful is that bellicose is warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile while peaceful is not at war or disturbed by strife or turmoil.
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
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peaceful English
Alternative forms
* peacefull (archaic)
Adjective
(en-adj)
Not at war or disturbed by strife or turmoil.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Old soldiers?
, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
Inclined to peace.
Motionless and calm.
Synonyms
* (inclined to peace) peaceable, pacific
* (quiet) tranquil, placid
Antonyms
* nonpeaceful
* belligerent
* violent
* warring
Derived terms
* peaceful coexistence
* peacefully
* peacefulness
Related terms
* peacemaker
* peace offering
* peace officer
* peace pipe
* peacetime
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