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3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pugnacious \Pug*na"cious\, adjective [L. pugnax, -acis, fr. pugnare to
fight. Cf. {Pugilism}, {Fist}.]
Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome;
fighting. --{Pug*na"cious*ly}, adverb -- {Pug*na"cious*ness},
n.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pugnacious
adjective
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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