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Belligerent vs Venomous - What's the difference?

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Belligerent is a related term of venomous.


As adjectives the difference between belligerent and venomous

is that belligerent is engaged in warfare, warring while venomous is full of venom.

As a noun belligerent

is a state or other armed participant in warfare.

belligerent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Engaged in warfare, warring.
  • Eager to go to war, warlike.
  • Of or pertaining to war.
  • (By extension) Aggressively hostile, eager to fight.
  • violently towards others.

    • Synonyms

    * (eager to fight) aggressive, antagonistic, bellicose, combative, contentious, pugnacious, quarrelsome, truculent

    Derived terms

    * belligerently * cobelligerent

    Related terms

    * bellicose * belligerence * belligerency

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A state or other armed participant in warfare
    • The U.N. sent a treaty proposal to the belligerents .

    See also

    * warmonger ----

    venomous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Full of venom.
  • Toxic; poisonous.
  • Noxious; evil.
  • Malignant; spiteful; hateful.
  • Producing venom (poison usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging) in glands or accumulating venom from food.
  • powerful
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=David Ornstein , title=Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Arsenal pressed forward again after half-time but other than a venomous Walcott shot that Howard repelled with a fine one-handed save, the hosts offered little cutting edge.}}

    Synonyms

    * noxious * poisonous * toxic

    Antonyms

    * non-venomous

    References

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