Bellicose

Definition: Bellicose

Bellicose

Adjective

1. Having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature".

Date "bellicose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Bellicose \Bel"li*cose`\, adjective. [Latin expression bellicosus, from bellicus of war, from bellum war. See Duel.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Bellicose

Synonyms: battleful (adj), combative (adj), contentious (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Contention	Competitive, rival; belligerent; contentious, combative, bellicose, unpeaceful; warlike; quarrelsome; pugnacious; pugilistic, gladiatorial; palestric, palestrical.
Warfare	Unpacific, unpeaceful; belligerent, combative, armigerous, bellicose, martial, warlike; military, militant; soldier-like, soldierly.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Bellicose

English words defined with "bellicose": Bellicosely, Bellicous ♦ chauvinist, combatively ♦ flag-waver ♦ hundred-percenter ♦ jingo, jingoist ♦ scrappily. (references)

"Bellicose" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bellicose" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	45	50,900

Expression using "bellicose": bellicose combative pugnacious scrappy truculent. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "bellicose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		luftarak (combative, martial, militant, military, warlike), luftëdashës (warlike). (various references)

Arabic		‏ميال للقتال, ‏مولع بالقتال (belligerent, combatant, combative, pugnacious, truculent). (various references)

Bulgarian		войнствен (combative, martial, militant, warlike), заядлив (argumentative, captious, carping, combative, contradictious, contradictory, currish, doggish, mordant, nagging, peevish, provoking, spleenful, troublesome, vixenish). (various references)

Czech		bojovný (combative, fighting, militant, warlike), válkychtivý, svárlivý (argumentative, belligerent, bitchy, cantankerous, contentious, quarrelsome, termagant). (various references)

Farsi		جنگجو (Belligerent, Comatant, Martial, Pugnacious, Warrior), اماده بجنگ , دعواءی (Barrator, Contentious, Obstreperous, Pugilist). (various references)

Finnish		sodanhaluinen (warlike, war-minded). (various references)

French		belliqueux, guerrier. (various references)

German		kriegerisch (belligerent, martial, martially, warlike, warlikely). (various references)

Greek		πολεμοχαρήσ (sabre rattling, warlike), φιλοπόλεμοσ (belligerent, jingo, warlike), επιθετικόσ (adjectival, aggressive, combative, irruptive, offensive). (various references)

Hebrew		מחרחר ריב (contentious), תוקפ� י (aggressive, obsidional, pugnacious, truculent), או�"ב מלחמ�" (belligerent, pugnacious). (various references)

Hungarian		harcias (combative, manful, martial, militant, military, pugnacious, soldierlike, to be game, warlike). (various references)

Indonesian		suka perang (warlike). (various references)

Italian		bellicoso (aggressive, warlike). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		主戦論 (bellicose argument, jingoism, war advocacy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅせ�"ろ�" (bellicose argument, jingoism, war advocacy). (various references)

Manx		troiddagh (belligerent, bickering). (various references)

Pig Latin		ellicosebay

Portuguese		belicoso (martial, pugnacious, warlike). (various references)

Romanian		belicos (warlike). (various references)

Russian		воинственный (combatant, combative, soldierly, trigger-happy, warlike). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ratoboran (belligerent, combative, militant, pugnacious, truculent, warlike). (various references)

Spanish		belicoso (militant, pugnacious, warlike, warring). (various references)

Swedish		stridslysten (combative, contentious, controversial, disputatious, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike), krigisk (martial, warlike). (various references)

Turkish		savaşçı (at, belligerent, combatant, fighter, fighting, martial, trigger-happy, warlike, warrior), mücâdeleci (contentious, crusader), kavgacı (aggressive, belligerent, combatant, combative, contentious, disagreeable, disputatious, fighter, litigious, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, ruffian, scrappy, spoiling for a fight, turbulent, warlike, wrangler). (various references)

Ukranian		войовничий (agonistic, amazonian, battailous, combative, fighting, martial, militant, militaristic, warlike), агресивний (aggressive). (various references)

Vietnamese		thích đánh nhau (pugnacious, scrappy, termagant), hiếu chiến (combative), hay gây gỗ (contentious, pugnacious). (various references)

Welsh		ymladdgar (pugnacious, warlike), rhyfelgar (warlike). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bellicose": bellicosely. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bellicose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baldicote, balicose, belicose, Bellacasa, bellcote, bellic, bellicoes, bellicosei, belliicose, bllicose, blucose. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bellicose" (pronounced be"lukō's)
3	-k ō' s	glucose.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-i-l-l-o-s"
	-2 letters: bellies, collies, obelise.
	-3 letters: belies, belles, celebs, cellos, cibols, cobles, colies, collie, libels, ocelli.
	-4 letters: belie, belle, bells, bices, biles, bills, blocs, boils, boles, bolls, ceils, celeb, celli, cello, cells, cibol, close, coble, coils, coles, cosie, libel, lisle, lobes, losel, obeli, obese, oleic, selle, slice, socle, solei.
	-5 letters: bees, bell, bels, bice, bile, bill.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-i-l-l-o-s"
	+1 letter: cellobiose, corbeilles.
	+2 letters: bellicosely, cellobioses.
	+3 letters: biomolecules, collectibles.
	+4 letters: bellicosities, subcollegiate.
	+5 letters: cobelligerents, uncollectibles.
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