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Pugnacious

Synonyms for "pugnacious" (76 found)

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General use (70)

Adjective(3 words)

rough hard-boiled hard-bitten

Noun, verb(4 words)

fight enemy wrangling warmongering

Adj, noun(14 words)

offensive partisan hostile militant belligerent aggressive military sanguinary polemic defiant chauvinist polemical jingoist eristic

Adj, verb(2 words)

passionate polarizing

Adjective(33 words)

irritable antagonistic ferocious inimical truculent quarrelsome rebellious bloodthirsty irascible combative contentious sanguineous pushy bellicose warlike chauvinistic disputatious unpeaceful shrewish trigger happy

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trigger-happy factious litigious hawkish jingoistic soldierlike militaristic self-assertive divisive unpeaceable jingoish unpacific factional

Noun(2 words)

contention jingo

Adj, noun, verb(6 words)

fighting bickering pushing battling brawling saber-rattling

Adj, adv, noun(1 words)

Adj, name, noun(1 words)

Adj, name, noun, verb(1 words)

bloody minded full of fight

Adj, adv(1 words)

Informal (6)

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, slang(1 words)

Name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, slang(2 words)

scrappy bloody-minded

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