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English Dictionary: pugnacious by the DICT Development Group
2 results for pugnacious
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pugnacious
adj
  1. tough and callous by virtue of experience [syn: {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(s): pugnacious, rough
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.
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