pugnacious 音标拼音: [pəgn'æʃɪs]
a . 好斗的
好斗的
pugnacious adj 1 :
tough and callous by virtue of experience [
synonym : {
hard -
bitten }, {
hard -
boiled }, {
pugnacious }]
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 " [
synonym : {
pugnacious }, {
rough }]
Pugnacious \
Pug *
na "
cious \,
a . [
L .
pugnax , -
acis ,
fr .
pugnare to fight .
Cf . {
Pugilism }, {
Fist }.]
Disposed to fight ;
inclined to fighting ;
quarrelsome ;
fighting . --{
Pug *
na "
cious *
ly },
adv . -- {
Pug *
na "
cious *
ness },
n .
[
1913 Webster ]
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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