Bellicose \Bel"li*cose`\, a. [L. bellicosus, fr. bellicus of
war, fr. bellum war. See Duel.]
Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.
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Arnold was, in fact, in a bellicose vein. --W. Irving.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bellicose
adj : having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose
young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious
nature" [syn: battleful, combative, contentious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "bellicose":
aggressive, antagonistic, assertive, battling, belligerent,
bickering, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, chauvinist,
chauvinistic, combative, contentious, disputatious, divisive,
enemy, eristic, factional, factious, ferocious, fierce, fighting,
full of fight, hawkish, hostile, inimical, irascible, irritable,
jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, litigious, martial,
militant, militaristic, military, offensive, partisan, polarizing,
polemic, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rebellious, saber-rattling,
sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, shrewish, soldierlike,
soldierly, trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific,
unpeaceable, unpeaceful, warlike, warmongering, warring,
wrangling
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
battleful, combative, contentious
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