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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  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]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  pugnacious
       adj 1: tough and callous by virtue of experience [syn: hard-bitten,
               hard-boiled]
       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" [syn: rough]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  pugnacious
     Αγγλικά a.
     εριστικός

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  pugnacious
     a.
     Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  pugnacious
     a.
     Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  pugnacious
     a.
     Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  pugnacious
     a.
     Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  pugnacious
     Englanti a.
     riidanhaluinen, epäsopuisa; hyvin kärjistävä

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  pugnacious
     Engelska a.
     stridslysten

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Pugnacious /pʌɡnˈeɪʃəs/
  مشاكس

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  pugnacious //pʌɡˈneɪ.ʃəs// 
  свадлив
  aggressive, belligerent

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  pugnacious /pʌɡnˈeɪʃəs/
  výbojný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  pugnacious /pʌɡnˈeɪʃəs/
  útočný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  pugnacious /pʌɡnˈeɪʃəs/
  bojechtivý

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  pugnacious /pʌɡnˈeɪʃəs/
  bojovný

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]


  pugnacious /pʌɡnˈeɪʃəs/
  kampflustig, streitlustig, kämpferisch

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-fin ]


  pugnacious //pʌɡˈneɪ.ʃəs// 
  taistelunhaluinen
  aggressive, belligerent

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]


  pugnacious /pʌɡnˈeɪʃəs/ 
  1. झगडालू
        "He is very pugnacious."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]


  pugnacious /pʌɡnˈeɪʃəs/
  ratoboran, svadljiv

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]


  pugnacious /pʌɡnˈeɪʃəs/
  1. harcias
  2. veszekedô
  3. civakodó
  4. összeférhetetlen
  5. kötekedô
  6. házsártos
  7. verekedô

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-swe ]


  pugnacious //pʌɡˈneɪ.ʃəs// 
  stridslysten
  aggressive, belligerent

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]


  pugnacious /pʌɡnˈeɪʃəs/
  1. kavgacı, hırçın. pugnaciousness  kavgacılık. pugnaciously  hırçınlıkla.

From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]

/pəɡˈnæʃɪs/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]


  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

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]


  a. 好斗的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]


     a. 好斗的

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