Pugnacious \Pug*na"cious\, a. [L. pugnax, -acis, fr. pugnare to
fight. Cf. Pugilism, Fist.]
Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pugnacious
adj 1: tough and callous by virtue of experience [syn: hard-bitten,
hard-boiled]
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" [syn: rough]
WordNet (r) 2.0
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "pugnacious":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
hard-bitten, hard-boiled, rough
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