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# bellicose

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

«bellicose» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Bellicose means eager to start a fight or argument; ready to quarrel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellicose/#m1)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellicose/#x1)
- A sturdy, bellicose, forthright man he was. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellicose/#x2)
- The bellicose knight wanted a fight with everyone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellicose/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bellicose» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellicose/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bellicose» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bellicose.html) on Mova free.