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bellicose

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9
Pronunciation
/ˈbɛlɪkoʊs/
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/ˈbɛlɪkoʊs/ · /ˈbɛləkoʊs/

Definition of bellicose

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. 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.”
    “The core Ice Age cast—wooly mammoth Manny (Ray Romano), sabertooth tiger Diego (Denis Leary), and sloth Sid (John Leguizamo)—are set adrift, sailing the high seas on a chunk of ice until they collide with a bellicose primate (Peter Dinklage).”
    “[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."”
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adj

  1. 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.”
    “The core Ice Age cast—wooly mammoth Manny (Ray Romano), sabertooth tiger Diego (Denis Leary), and sloth Sid (John Leguizamo)—are set adrift, sailing the high seas on a chunk of ice until they collide with a bellicose primate (Peter Dinklage).”
    “[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."”
  2. Showing or having the impulse to be combative.

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Etymology

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.

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