Bellicose Meaning and Usage

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Bellicose Meaning:

adjective
- warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
- showing or having the impulse to be combative.

Bellicose Usage:

"bellicose young officers”
“a bellicose nation”
“bellicose criticism”

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Derivatives:

bellicosely - adverb
bellicosity - noun
bellicoseness - noun

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Bellicose Synonyms:

aggressive, antagonistic, battleful, belligerent, combative, contentious, defiant, destructive, disputant, hawkish, hostile, jingoistic, martial, militant, militaristic, offensive, provocative, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike, warmongering.

Bellicose Antonyms:

peaceful, pacific, placid, peaceable, submissive, conciliatory, mild.


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Use Bellicose in a sentence:

1. The bellicose guest would not be invited back again.

2. He expressed alarm about the government's increasingly bellicose statements.

3. Some nations are traditionally bellicose and are constantly at war with their neighbours.

4. My bellicose temper has gotten me into more fights than I would like to remember.

5. Because of her bellicose nature, she had a difficult time making friends.

6. Michael’s bellicose attitude got him into trouble.

7. Immediately after defeating one of his enemies, the bellicose chieftain declared war on another.

8. Mark was, in fact, in a bellicose vein.

9. Or will they sit out the fighting, despite their bellicose rhetoric, out of fear of choosing the wrong side?

10. We need to make clear to the American people that Bush's "bellicose" war policies are not only putting our military forces (and civilian "collateral damage") at grave risk, but are endangering our country's long-term national interests.

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Origin:
1432, from Latin bellicosus, from bellicus "of war," from bellum "war." Bellona was the name of the Roman goddess of war.

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