Synonyms for Pugnacious

Synonyms for "pugnacious" (83 found)

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Closest matches (17)

aggressive antagonistic battling bellicose belligerent bickering bloodthirsty bloodybloody mindedbloody-minded brawling chauvinist chauvinistic combative

Adjective(3 words)

aggressive belligerent combative

Strong matches (25)

contention contentious defiant disputatious divisive enemy eristic factional factious ferocious fierce fight fightingfull of fighthawkish hostile inimical irascible irritable jingo

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jingoish

Adjective(4 words)

feistier feistiest hard-bitten hard-boiled

Related words (41)

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

3 entries

adjective characteristic descriptor

More specific

1 entries

pugilistic temperament

Collocations

6 entries

pugnacious attitudepugnacious demeanorpugnacious posturepugnacious rhetoricpugnacious stancepugnacious temperament

Inflections

2 entries

more pugnaciousmost pugnacious

Derivations

2 entries

pugnaciously pugnacity

similar

2 entries

aggressive tough

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Henry Baskerville was a small, alert, dark-eyed man about thirty years of age, very sturdily built, with thick black eyebrows and a strong, pugnacious face.

Source: tatoeba (6606497)

Sami was a pugnacious businessman.

Source: tatoeba (6687721)

Tom is prickly and pugnacious.

Source: tatoeba (9449037)

The general appearance, pugnacious behavior, and whitish mouth of water-snakes (Natrix) have earned them a bad reputation.

Source: tatoeba (12138206)

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