Warlike vs Derring - What's the difference?
warlike | derring |
Hostile and belligerent.
Martial, bellicose or militaristic.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (obsolete) daring; warlike
As adjectives the difference between warlike and derring
is that warlike is hostile and belligerent while derring is daring; warlike.warlike
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}
Antonyms
* nonwarlikederring
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Drad for his derring doe and bloody deed. — Spenser.