MEANING
Inclined toward fighting or aggressive confrontation.
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- bellicose rhetoric
- bellicose mood
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His bellicose rhetoric unsettled the negotiators.
The minister grew bellicose when challenged.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more bellicose; superlative most bellicose where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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