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pugnacious

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pug·na·cious  (pg-nshs)
adj.
Combative in nature; belligerent. See Synonyms at belligerent.

[From Latin pugnx, pugnc-, from pugnre, to fight, from pugnus, fist; see peuk- in Indo-European roots.]

pug·nacious·ly adv.
pug·nacious·ness, pug·naci·ty (-ns-t) n.

pugnacious [pʌgˈneɪʃəs]
adj
readily disposed to fight; belligerent
[from Latin pugnāx]
pugnaciously  adv
pugnacity  [pʌgˈnæsɪtɪ], pugnaciousness n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.pugnacious - tough and callous by virtue of experience
tough - not given to gentleness or sentimentality; "a tough character"
2.pugnacious - 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"
aggressive - having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends; "an aggressive businessman"; "an aggressive basketball player"; "he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions"; "aggressive drivers"

pugnacious
Translations
pugnacious [pʌgˈneɪʃəs] ADJpugnaz, agresivo
pugnacious [pʌgˈneɪʃəs] adjpugnace
pugnacious
adjkampfeslustig; (verbally) → streitsüchtig; expression, remarkherausfordernd; support, defencehartnäckig; campaignaggressiv
pugnacious [pʌgˈneɪʃəs] adjbellicoso/a, battagliero/a
pugnacious [pʌgˈneɪʃəs] adjbellicoso/a, battagliero/a


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For Glaucon, who is always the most pugnacious of men, was dissatisfied at Thrasymachus' retirement; he wanted to have the battle out.
For while those female whales are characteristically timid, the young males, or forty-barrel-bulls, as they call them, are by far the most pugnacious of all Leviathans, and proverbially the most dangerous to encounter; excepting those wondrous grey-headed, grizzled whales, sometimes met, and these will fight you like grim fiends exasperated by a penal gout.
These, in general, are animals of peaceful demeanor, grazing quietly like domestic cattle; but this was the season when they are in heat, and when the bulls are usually fierce and pugnacious.
 
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