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bellicose

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of bellicose

feeling or displaying eagerness to fight

bellicose hockey players who seem to spend more time fighting than playing

Synonyms of bellicose

aggressive, agonistic, argumentative, assaultive, belligerent, brawly, chippy, combative, confrontational, contentious, discordant, disputatious, feisty, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike

Words Related to bellicose

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, stroppy [British], surly, testy, touchy, ugly, waspish

savage, vicious

battling, fighting, warring

Phrases Synonymous with bellicose

Near Antonyms of bellicose

anti-imperialist, antimilitarist, unwarlike

affable, amiable, amicable, benevolent, complaisant, conciliatory, cordial, easygoing, friendly, genial, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, ingratiating, kindhearted, obliging, pleasant, sociable

calm, quiet, relaxed, serene, tranquil

benign, gentle, kindly, mild

Antonyms of bellicose

nonaggressive, nonbelligerent, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, unbelligerent, uncombative, uncontentious

Synonym Discussion of bellicose

belligerent, bellicose, pugnacious, quarrelsome, contentious mean having an aggressive or fighting attitude. belligerent often implies being actually at war or engaged in hostilities.

- belligerent nations

bellicose suggests a disposition to fight.

- a drunk in a bellicose mood

pugnacious suggests a disposition that takes pleasure in personal combat.

- a pugnacious gangster

quarrelsome stresses an ill-natured readiness to fight without good cause.

- the heat made us all quarrelsome

contentious implies perverse and irritating fondness for arguing and quarreling.

- wearied by his contentious disposition

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