'Pugnacious' definitions:
Definition of 'pugnacious'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Tough and callous by virtue of experience [syn: hard- bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious]
adjective
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: pugnacious, rough]
Definition of 'Pugnacious'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'pugnacious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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