Bellicose

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bellicose
       adj : having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose
             young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious
             nature" [syn: {battleful}, {combative}, {contentious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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