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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellicose/#m1)

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bellicose» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellicose/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.