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pugnacious 音标拼音: [pəgn'æʃɪs] a. 好斗的 好斗的 pugnacious adj 1: tough and callous by virtue of experience [ synonym: { hard- bitten}, { hard- boiled}, { pugnacious}] 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" [ synonym: { pugnacious}, { rough}] Pugnacious \ Pug* na" cious\, a. [ L. pugnax, - acis, fr. pugnare to fight. Cf. { Pugilism}, { Fist}.] Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting. --{ Pug* na" cious* ly}, adv. -- { Pug* na" cious* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 66 Moby Thesaurus words for " pugnacious": 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
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