Pugnacious
[pʌg'neɪʃəs] or [pʌg'neʃəs]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
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Definition
(a.) Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Quarrelsome, fighting, contentious.
Editor: Sweeney
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Quarrelsome, bellicose, contentious
ANT:Peaceable, conciliatory, suavity
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Definition
adj. fond of fighting: combative: quarrelsome.—adv. Pugnā′ciously.—n. Pugnac′ity readiness or inclination to fight: fondness for fighting: quarrelsomeness.
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Examples
- They are natives of the southeast of Asia and are remarkable for their pugnacious propensities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For Glaucon, who is always the most pugnacious of men, was dissatisfied at Thrasymachus' retirement; he wanted to have the battle out. Plato. The Republic.
- Or if honour or victory or courage, in that case the judgment of the ambitious or pugnacious would be the truest? Plato. The Republic.
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