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bellicose
Synonyms and Antonyms of bellicose
- bellicose hockey players who seem to spend more time fighting than playing
antagonistic, fierce, hostile, hot-tempered
acidic, bearish, bilious, bristly, choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, disagreeable, dyspeptic, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, rude, snappish, snappy, surly, testy, touchy, ugly, waspish
on the warpath
Synonym Discussion of bellicose
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- belligerent nations
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- a drunk in a bellicose mood
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- a pugnacious gangster
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- the heat made us all quarrelsome
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- wearied by his contentious disposition
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