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unbellicose

unbellicose adjective: not bellicose; unwarlike.

Adjective

unbellicose (comparative more unbellicose, superlative most unbellicose)

  1. Not bellicose; unwarlike.
    • Small wonder that history has become such a hotly contested battleground, or that otherwise unbellicose professors are so often pressed into front-line service in the culture wars.2009 July 19, David M. Kennedy, “What History Is Good For”, in New York Times

Forms of unbellicose

comparativemore unbellicose
superlativemost unbellicose

Origin of unbellicose

From un- + bellicose.

Questions about unbellicose

What does unbellicose mean?
Unbellicose means not bellicose; unwarlike.
What part of speech is unbellicose?
Unbellicose is an adjective.

Words near unbellicose in the dictionary

  1. unbelittling
  2. unbelivable
  3. unbeliveable
  4. unbell
  5. unbelled
  6. unbellicose
  7. unbellied
  8. unbelligerent
  9. unbelligerently
  10. unbelling
  11. unbells

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