bellicist

Meanings

Noun

• An adherent of bellicism; one who advocates war.

Adjective

• Of or relating to bellicism, a bellicist, bellicists, advocating war, who is war-centered or war-oriented.

Related

Similar words

• hawk
• militarist
• warmonger
• warnik
• bellicistic
• hawkish
• militaristic
• warmongering

Opposite words

• anti-bellicist
• dove
• pacifist
• peacenik
• dovish
• pacifistic

Origin

• Latin bellicus ("of or pertaining to war; warlike"), -ist; possibly adapted from the French neologism belliciste (about Bismarck, 1871; in Émile Faguet, 1908).