Bellicose Definition

bĕlĭ-kōs
adjective
Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament.
American Heritage
Of a quarrelsome or hostile nature; eager to fight or quarrel; warlike.
Webster's New World
The definition of bellicose is someone or something aggressive and eager or willing to fight.
An example of bellicose are angry rebels who storm a protest march.
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Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.

Wiktionary

Showing or having the impulse to be combative.

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Origin of Bellicose

  • Middle English from Latin bellicōsus from bellicus of war from bellum war

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English, from Latin bellicosus

    From Wiktionary

Bellicose Sentence Examples

  • It was one of the most bellicose elements in American society.

  • Did they choose bellicose rhetoric out of fear of choosing the wrong side?

  • He had a bellicose attitude toward trying to break the deadlock on the Western Front.

  • It was one of several bellicose statements by one of its coalition partners.

  • The bellicose noises made for war now were silent then.

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