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Bellicosity is the noun for being bellicose: the quality of likely to start a fight or an argument. If a speech is bellicose, you can talk about the bellicosity of the speech. It is even more formal and even rarer than bellicose. You will meet it in news analysis and history writing, almost never in a shop or a classroom chat. Everyday English would say aggressiveness, a warlike tone, or just “they sounded so ready for a fight.” The tidy dictionary line often repeats the adjective’s meaning (“behaving in a way that is likely to start a fight”); though actually, this word names the quality or the atmosphere, not a single action. Same warning as bellicose: no bells.
好戰、好鬥的態度(極書面;bellicose 的名詞)
組成bellicose + -osity. The ending -osity turns the adjective into a noun meaning “the quality of being ….”
同家族的字
- bellicosethe adjective this noun is built from
- belligerentsame Latin bellum, “war”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bellicositynoun/ˌbɛlɪˈkɒsɪti/
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The characteristic of being bellicose.
- The timing is intriguing too. Before this news North Korea was all bellicosity and bluster.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。