pugnacious adj

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]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

Adjective

1. Aggressive, combative, war-like, belligerent.

   Don't antagonize him; he's big and has a pugnacious disposition.

Translations

• Dutch: strijdlustig
• Finnish: taistelunhaluinen
• German: kampflustig, streitsüchtig
• Latin: pugno, pugnare

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