Pugnacious - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|pʌɡˈneɪʃəs|
Brit.
|pʌɡˈneɪʃəs|
adjective
- tough and callous by virtue of experience (syn: hard-bitten, hard-boiled)
- ready and able to resort to force or violence (syn: rough)
- ready and able to resort to force or violence (syn: rough)
pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance
Extra examples
There's one pugnacious member on the committee who won't agree to anything.
...a movie reviewer who is spirited, even pugnacious, when defending her opinions...
The professor had been pugnacious and irritable.
Herz sees himself as a pugnacious sardine going up against rule-flouting sharks.
He was a short man with heavy shoulders, a slight potbelly, puffy blue eyes, and a pugnacious expression.
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