pugnacious
adj.
inclined to fight, combative, truculent
pugnacious
Adjective
1. tough and callous by virtue of experience
(synonym) hard-bitten, hard-boiled
(similar) tough
2. ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men"
(synonym) rough
(similar) aggressive
Pugnacious
(a.)
Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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pugnacious
Synonyms and related words:
aggressive, antagonistic, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brawling, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, contentious, disputatious, divisive, enemy, eristic, factional, factious, ferocious, fierce, fight, fighting, full of fight, hawkish, hostile, inimical, irascible, irritable, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, litigious, martial, militant, militaristic, military, offensive, partisan, polarizing, polemic, pushing, pushy, quarrelsome, rebellious, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, self-assertive, shrewish, soldierlike, soldierly, trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, warlike, warmongering, warring, wrangling
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Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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