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bellicostic

bellicostic adjective: aggressive, belligerent, warlike.

Adjective

bellicostic (comparative more bellicostic, superlative most bellicostic)

  1. (rare) Aggressive, belligerent, warlike.
    • Religious papers in those days were much more bellicostic than today, and no spirit of irenic ecumenism prevailed.1975, The Filson Club History Quarterly, volumes 49-50, page 78
    • The first of our overseas, modern imperial wars may long be gone from our thoughts, but abiding questions remain — the role of bellicostic politicians and news media, the reluctant chief executive, the imperialist devotees of Alfred Thayer Mahan in uniform and mufti both, and just why it could not...1981, Choice: Publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a Division of the American Library Association, Volume 19, Issues 1-6, page 438

Forms of bellicostic

comparativemore bellicostic
superlativemost bellicostic

Questions about bellicostic

What does bellicostic mean?
Bellicostic means aggressive, belligerent, warlike.
What part of speech is bellicostic?
Bellicostic is an adjective.

Words near bellicostic in the dictionary

  1. bellicose
  2. bellicosely
  3. bellicoseness
  4. bellicosities
  5. bellicosity
  6. bellicostic
  7. bellicous
  8. bellidiflorin
  9. bellidoite
  10. bellied
  11. bellied out

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