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.
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Pugnacious
Synonyms for "pugnacious" (78 found)
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Related words (39)
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Synonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
6 entriesderived
3 entriesrelated to
10 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 21 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- свадлив adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Catalan
1 entries- pugnaç adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 好戰的 /好战的 adj (aggressive, belligerent)
- 好鬥的 /好斗的 adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Dutch
4 entries- strijdlustig adj (aggressive, belligerent)
- vechtlustig adj (aggressive, belligerent)
- vijandig adj (aggressive, belligerent)
- vijandig adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Finnish
1 entries- taistelunhaluinen adj (aggressive, belligerent)
French
1 entries- pugnace adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Galician
1 entries- pugnaz adj (aggressive, belligerent)
German
4 entries- aggressiv adj (aggressive, belligerent)
- kampfeslustig adj (aggressive, belligerent)
- kampflustig adj (aggressive, belligerent)
- kämpferisch adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Irish
1 entries- trodach adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Italian
1 entries- pugnace adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Kazakh
3 entries- сотқар adj (aggressive, belligerent)
- төбелескіш adj (aggressive, belligerent)
- төбелесшіл adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Latin
1 entries- pugnāx adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Māori
2 entries- pukungangare adj (aggressive, belligerent)
- ririhau adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- stridslysten adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Occitan
1 entries- pugnaç adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Polish
4 entries- awanturniczy adj (aggressive, belligerent)
- czupurny adj (aggressive, belligerent)
- wojowniczy adj (aggressive, belligerent)
- zadzierzysty adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Portuguese
3 entries- belicoso adj (aggressive, belligerent)
- pugnace adj (aggressive, belligerent)
- pugnaz adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Russian
1 entries- драчли́вый adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ratoboran adj (aggressive, belligerent)
- ратоборан adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Spanish
2 entries- belicoso adj (aggressive, belligerent)
- pugnaz adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Swedish
1 entries- stridslysten adj (aggressive, belligerent)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
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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