Definitions for bellicose

bellicose bel·li·cose

Spelling: [bel-i-kohs]
IPA: /ˈbɛl ɪˌkoʊs/

Bellicose is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 283 anagrams from letters in bellicose (bceeillos).

Definitions for bellicose

adjective

  1. inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.

Origin of bellicose

1400-50; late Middle English Latin bellicōsus, equivalent to bellic(us) pertaining to war (bell(um) war + -icus -ic) + -ōsus -ose1

Examples for bellicose

In 2009 he published a book defaming Hitchens and Richard Dawkins because he was irked by their bellicose brand of atheism.

She contrasted its timidity with a bellicose anti-Hagel salvo from the Christian-right group Concerned Women for America.

In the last decades of his life he became reclusive and bellicose.

I am the least bellicose of men, I believe I can say I may afford to be so.

Pountner and Holdenough were to some extent ashamed of their bellicose Dean.

The family Spratt-head was rather a fat-head,And a bellicose body to boot.

China is clearly frustrated with its destitute, bellicose neighbor.

This explains why the Tea Party faithful often appear to be so bellicose.

The disappointment was felt keenly even by the bellicose cook.

Yet how if those young men are not bellicose like their wise seniors?

Word Value for bellicose
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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