bellicose
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Old Latin duellum Latin bellum Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin bellicusder. Latin bellicum signumclip.? Latin bellicum Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-der. Latin -ōsus Latin bellicosusder. Middle English bellicose English bellicose From Middle English bellicose, from Latin bellicosus.
- derived from bellicosus
- inherited from bellicose
Definitions
Warlike in nature
Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
- CHINA sent both bellicose and conciliatory signals yesterday as tension continued in the Taiwan Strait over Chinese military exercises and the deployment of US naval battle groups.
- [Greenland's current Prime Minister Múte] Egede has insisted that Greenland is not for sale and he framed the polling partly as a referendum on Trump's seemingly bellicose bullying, saying the election was a "fateful choice."
Showing or having the impulse to be combative.
The neighborhood
- synonymbelligerent
- synonympugnacious
- antonymconciliatory
- antonympacific
- antonympeaceable
- neighborantebellum
- neighborbellicism
- neighborbellicosity
- neighborbelligerent
- neighborBellona
- neighborpostbellum
- neighborrebel
- neighborrebellion
Derived
antibellicose, bellicosely, bellicoseness, nonbellicose, unbellicose
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at bellicose. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at bellicose. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at bellicose
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA