What is another word for pugnacious?

Synonyms for pugnacious
pʌgˈneɪ ʃəspug·na·cious

This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word pugnacious.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pugnacious

    Synonyms:
    quarrelsome, bellicose, contentious

    Antonyms:
    peaceable, conciliatory, suavity

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnaciousadjective

    tough and callous by virtue of experience

    Synonyms:
    rough, hardened, hard-bitten, case-hardened, hard-boiled

    Antonyms:
    nonaggressive, tender, unaggressive

  2. pugnacious, roughadjective

    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"

    Synonyms:
    bumpy, approximative, rough, hard-bitten, jolting, rasping, crude, gravelly, rocky, jolty, fierce, harsh, scratchy, jumpy, boisterous, grating, approximate, raspy, unsmooth, uncut, hard-boiled

    Antonyms:
    unaggressive, nonaggressive, tender

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pugnaciousadjective

    Synonyms:
    quarrelsome, fighting, contentious

How to pronounce pugnacious?

How to say pugnacious in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#5548rough
#5995rocky
#8049approximate
#9920crude
#11437harsh
#11710uncut
#15142fierce
#20615hardened
#27806contentious
#28023grating
#32636bumpy
#59577scratchy
#60245boisterous
#68434gravelly
#74028jumpy
#96709raspy
#115380bellicose
#133494pugnacious
#136732quarrelsome
#139637jolting
#147394rasping
#241914approximative

How to use pugnacious in a sentence?

  1. Richard Gowan:

    A lot of United Nations officials worried that Richard Grenell might return to New York to head [ the Richard Gowan mission to the UN ] at some point and will be delighted that Richard Grenell's bound for Washington instead, richard Grenell is still remembered around United Nations as a pretty pugnacious operator.

  2. Stefano Gatti:

    Every time prominent Jews are at the center of media attention in Italy, they get subjected to online anti-Semitic abuse, the anti-Semitic insults come from far-right circles that have a past, and sometimes present, of violence. It's part of their radical rightwing code, this pugnacious attitude.

  3. Edward Lazarus:

    Justice Scalia had an irrepressibly pugnacious personality.


Translations for pugnacious

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

Get even more translations for pugnacious »

Translation

Find a translation for the pugnacious synonym in other languages:

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Citation

Use the citation below to add these synonyms to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"pugnacious." Synonyms.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 28 Mar. 2024. <https://www.synonyms.com/synonym/pugnacious>.

Discuss these pugnacious synonyms with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good synonym for pugnacious?

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Synonyms.com

    Quiz

    Are you a human thesaurus?

    »
    what is a possible synonym of Bad?
    A naughty
    B good
    C hot
    D cold

    Nearby & related entries:

    Alternative searches for pugnacious: