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belligerent

adj
/bəˈlɪdʒ.ə.ɹənt/UK/bəˈlɪd͡ʒ.ɚ.ənt/US

Etymology

From Latin belligerans (“waging war”), present active participle of belligerō (“to wage war”), from belliger (“waging war, warlike”), from bellum (“war”) + -ger (from gerō (“to lead, wage, carry on”)).

  1. derived from belligerans — “waging war”

Definitions

  1. Engaged in warfare, warring.

  2. Eager to go to war, warlike.

  3. Of or pertaining to war.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Aggressively hostile, eager to fight.

      • And I think the facts are that Beijing is a belligerent bully jealous and envious of what Taiwan has accomplished- mainland China- that's what I get out of all of this.
      • England were not allowed to give their chariot the momentum it had a week ago. It was stopped dead in its tracks by a belligerent Springboks defence that simply refused to yield.

    2. Acting violently towards others.

    3. Uncooperative.

    4. A state or other armed participant in warfare

      • The UN sent a treaty proposal to the belligerents.

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Derived

antibelligerent, belligerati, belligerently, interbelligerent, nonbelligerent, non-belligerent, unbelligerent, cobelligerent

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at belligerent. 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.

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A definitional loop anchored at belligerent. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at belligerent

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