different between bombastic vs bellicose

English

Alternative forms

• bombastical (archaic)
• bombastick (obsolete)
• bumbastic, bumbastical (obsolete)

Etymology

18th century, from bombast (“padding, stuffing”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b?m?bæs.t?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b?m?bæs.t??k/
• Rhymes: -æst?k

Adjective

bombastic (comparative more bombastic, superlative most bombastic)

1. (of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous

   See Thesaurus:verbose or Thesaurus:arrogant

2. High-sounding but with little meaning.
3. (archaic) Inflated, overfilled.

   Synonyms: inflated, turgid

Antonyms

• (pompous or overly wordy): See Thesaurus:concise

Related terms

Descendants

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From German bombastisch

Adjective

bombastic m or n (feminine singular bombastic?, masculine plural bombastici, feminine and neuter plural bombastice)

1. bombastic

Declension

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)

1. 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).

2. 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

1. feminine plural of bellicoso

Latin

Adjective

bellic?se

1. vocative masculine singular of bellic?sus

References

• bellicose in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)