different between barbarous vs bellicose
barbarous
English
Alternative forms
- (obsolete) barbarouse
Etymology
Late Middle English, from Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b??(?)b???s/
Adjective
barbarous (comparative more barbarous, superlative most barbarous)
- (said of language) Not classical or pure.
- uncivilized, uncultured
- 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt
- I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored.
- 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt
- Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
- I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs
- By the known rules of antient libertie,
- When strait a barbarous noise environs me
- Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs - I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs, John Milton (1673)
Derived terms
- barbarously
- barbarousness
Related terms
- barbarian
- barbaric
Translations
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bellicose
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Latin bellicosus.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?l?ko?s/, /?b?l?ko?s/
Adjective
bellicose (comparative more bellicose, superlative most bellicose)
- Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- The core Ice Age cast—wooly mammoth Manny (Ray Romano), sabertooth tiger Diego (Denis Leary), and sloth Sid (John Leguizamo)—are set adrift, sailing the high seas on a chunk of ice until they collide with a bellicose primate (Peter Dinklage).
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- Showing or having the impulse to be combative.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:combative
Antonyms
- pacific
Related terms
- antebellum
- bellicosity
- bellicism
- belligerent
- Bellona
- postbellum
- rebel
- rebellion
Coordinate terms
- trigger-happy
- warmonger
Translations
Italian
Adjective
bellicose f pl
- feminine plural of bellicoso
Latin
Adjective
bellic?se
- vocative masculine singular of bellic?sus
References
- bellicose in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
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