bellicose

«bellicose» in Mova's school dictionary: eager to start a fight or argument; ready to quarrel — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (more bellicose, most bellicose); formal or rare use

meaning for a pupil

Bellicose means eager to start a fight or argument; ready to quarrel. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories, a character who wants to fight and is always ready for battle; a formal word for «quarrelsome»

examples

• The bellicose goat butted every goat it met. tree →
• A sturdy, bellicose, forthright man he was. tree →
• The bellicose knight wanted a fight with everyone. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bellicose» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.