Pugnacious Definition
pugnacious
adjective
- tough and callous by virtue of experience
- 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"
Words that rhyme with pugnacious
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