Timeline for Word for: 'Because of war'
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| Nov 17, 2012 at 16:32 | comment | added | tylerharms | I think a single word modifier for this sentence would not be the best way to express the desired sentiment. Do you want a word that indicates that the "lack" of men is due to the fact that they are fighting in a war or killed in action? I don't think I would understand the sentence to mean that women were bored because all their men were killed in war. | |
| Nov 17, 2012 at 16:11 | vote | accept | Xophmeister | ||
| Nov 17, 2012 at 15:14 | answer | added | StoneyB on hiatus | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 17, 2012 at 14:38 | comment | added | Xophmeister | @StoneyB 'Bellic' is perfect and, even though it's obsolete, I still may use it! If you post that as an answer, I'll mark it as accepted :) | |
| Nov 17, 2012 at 13:04 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @StoneyB: I guess you're right - "military damage" abounds, but although you could say it means "caused by war", it would be more accurate to say it means "caused by the action of soldiers in war". It certainly doesn't fit OP's context. | |
| Nov 17, 2012 at 11:45 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @J.R. I didn't go through the whole OED; but I consulted three thesauruses, and I ran the Greek and Latin roots I could find through the OED, since we ordinarily build such adjectives on Greek or Latin roots. I'm reasonably confident that if there's an adjective out there it's so obscure that it would not serve OP's purposes. In most cases where the word is called for we just use war attributively, but that doesn't work here. I go with FumbleFingers' answer. | |
| Nov 17, 2012 at 11:34 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @FumbleFingers Not so. The dictionary may say it means of war, but it does so only with respect to the action of soldiers in war. | |
| Nov 17, 2012 at 9:34 | comment | added | J.R. | @StoneyB: Be wary of saying "there is no English word for..." unless you're willing to read through the entire OED first, just to be sure. (Even then, one might still find something in the Urban Dictionary.) Also, as an aside, bellic may be obsolete, but bellicose is not (bellicose was the first word that crossed my mind when I saw this question, but it doesn't fit the O.P.'s purposes). | |
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| Nov 17, 2012 at 4:47 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @StoneyB: Not so. From M-W - military of or relating to soldiers, arms, or war. What we lack is a word meaning caused by war. It's just that other connotations of military don't allow it to be used that way. Unlike, say, bacterial, viral, etc., which we happily use to mean both caused by and related to bacteria & viruses. | |
| Nov 17, 2012 at 4:29 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | Oddly, there is not at present an English word meaning "related to war". Polemic, from Greek, has developed a very different sense; bellic, from Latin, never achieved much currency and is now obsolete; and martial signifies something closer to of warriors than to of war. | |
| Nov 17, 2012 at 0:01 | answer | added | FumbleFingers | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 16, 2012 at 23:23 | answer | added | benshepherd | timeline score: 1 | |
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