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bellicosely |
bellicoseness |
bellicosity |
bellicous |
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belligerence
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| belligerent
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belligerence
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun belligerence has 2 senses
- belligerence(n = noun.feeling) belligerency - hostile or warlike attitude or nature; Array is a kind of enmity, hostility, ill will
- belligerence(n = noun.attribute) aggressiveness, pugnacity - a natural disposition to be hostile; Array is a kind of disagreeableness
has particulars: warpath
Derived form adjective belligerent1
has particulars: bellicoseness, bellicosity, truculence, truculency
Derived form adjective belligerent1
CIDE DICTIONARY
belligerence, n.
- The quality of being belligerent. [1913 Webster]
- the act or state of being engaged in war or a warlike conflict; warfare. [WordNet 1.5]
- an aggressively hostile or warlike attitude or nature; a readiness to fight or offend, with little or no provocation. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
belligerence, n. (also belligerency)
1 aggressive or warlike behaviour.
2 the status of a belligerent.
1 aggressive or warlike behaviour.
2 the status of a belligerent.
THESAURUS
belligerence
aggression, aggressiveness, all-out war, antagonism, antipathy, appeal to arms, argumentativeness, armed combat, armed conflict, attack, battle, bellicism, bellicosity, belligerency, bickering, bloodshed, chauvinism, clash, clashing, collision, combat, combativeness, conflict, contention, contentiousness, despitefulness, disputatiousness, dissension, dissent, dissidence, faction, factiousness, ferocity, fierceness, fight, fighting, flak, friction, hate, hatred, hostilities, hostility, hot war, infighting, irascibility, irritability, jingoism, la guerre, litigiousness, malevolence, malice, malignity, martialism, might of arms, militancy, militarism, military operations, open hostilities, open war, partisan spirit, partisanship, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, repugnance, resort to arms, saber rattling, shooting war, shrewishness, spite, spitefulness, state of war, the sword, total war, truculence, unfriendliness, unpeacefulness, war, warfare, warmaking, warmongering, warpath, warring, wartime
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