Truculent \Tru"cu*lent\, a. [L. truculentus, fr. trux, gen.
trucis, wild, fierce: cf. F. truculent.]
1. Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent
inhabitants of Scythia. --Ray.
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2. Cruel; destructive; ruthless.
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More or less truculent plagues. --Harvey.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
truculent
adj 1: defiantly aggressive; "as truculent as a small boy who
thinks his big brother can lick anybody"
2: aggressively hostile; "a truculent speech against the new
government"
WordNet (r) 2.0
128 Moby Thesaurus words for "truculent":
Draconian, Tartarean, abrupt, aggressive, animal, antagonistic,
anthropophagous, atrocious, bad-tempered, barbaric, barbarous,
battling, bearish, beastly, bellicose, belligerent, bestial,
bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bluff, blunt, brash,
browbeating, brusque, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, bullying,
cannibalistic, cavalier, chauvinist, chauvinistic, churlish,
combative, contentious, contumelious, cowing, cruel, cruel-hearted,
crusty, curt, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, enemy,
fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fighting,
frightening, full of fight, grim, gruff, harsh, hawkish, hellish,
hostile, ill-tempered, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, inimical,
intimidating, invective, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic,
martial, militant, militaristic, military, murderous, nasty,
obstreperous, offensive, opprobrious, pugnacious, quarrelsome,
rough, rude, ruthless, saber-rattling, sadistic, sanguinary,
sanguineous, satanic, savage, scathing, scrappy, scurrile,
scurrilous, severe, sharkish, sharp, short, slavering, snippy,
soldierlike, soldierly, subhuman, sullen, surly, terrifying,
terrorizing, trigger-happy, unchristian, uncivilized, unfriendly,
unhuman, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, unpleasant, vicious,
violent, virulent, vituperative, warlike, warmongering, warring,
wolfish
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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