pugnacious

Speech parts

1. pugnacious - Adjective

2. pugnacious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rough hard-boiled hard-bitten savage bantam bulldog warlike hotspur fighting offensive violent contrary hostile aggressive martial
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Antonyms

pacific allied friendly mild adequate peaceful
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Related terms

poniard repugnant pugilism pugnacity repugn impugn

Examples

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards. Walt Whitman

The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry. Eric Temple Bell

pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance Source: Internet

they were rough and determined fighting men Source: Internet

Both Eicher and Furgurson suggest that Hooker's abstinence from alcohol during the battle may have affected his normally pugnacious personality. Source: Internet

Femi emptied the content of his pugnacious buccal cavity on the journalist. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

pugmark pugmill Pugmire pugnaciously pugnaciousness pugnacity