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bellicous

bellicous is the obsolete form of bellicose.

Meaning of bellicose

Adjective

bellicose (comparative more bellicose, superlative most bellicose)

  1. Warlike or combative in nature; aggressively hostile.
    • You don't have to be so bellicose, and we can work out a peaceful solution.

Forms of bellicous

comparativemore bellicous
superlativemost bellicous

Questions about bellicous

What is bellicous the obsolete form of?
Bellicous is the obsolete form of bellicose.

Words near bellicous in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bellicous (page history and authors); bellicose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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