440 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pʌɡnˈe͡ɪʃəs], [ pʌɡnˈe‍ɪʃəs], [ p_ʌ_ɡ_n_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_s]

Similar words for pugnacious:

• aggressive (adjective)
• all (adjective)
• argumentative (adjective)
• bellicose (adjective)
• belligerent (adjective)
• combative (adjective)
• disputatious (adjective)
• fighting (adjective)
• hostile (adjective)
• militant (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• quarrelsome (adjective)
• rebellious (adjective)
• repulsive (adjective)
• tough (adjective)
• truculent (adjective)
• ugly (adjective)
• belligerent (noun)
• hard-bitten (noun)
• hard-boiled (noun)
• litigiousness (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Synonyms for Pugnacious:

• adj.

  • aggressive (adjective)
  • offensive,
  • confrontational,
  • hawkish,
  • intrusive.
  • all (adjective)
  • rough,
  • pugnacious.
  • argumentative (adjective)
  • salty,
  • spikiest,
  • polemic,
  • fire-eating,
  • opinionated,
  • spikier,
  • polemical,
  • disputatious,
  • having a chip on one's shoulder,
  • spiky,
  • fire eating.
  • bellicose (adjective)
  • most battleful,
  • more battleful.
  • belligerent (adjective)
  • petulant,
  • pushy,
  • pushing,
  • self-assertive,
  • irascible,
  • choleric,
  • defiant,
  • argumentative,
  • brawling,
  • hot-tempered,
  • chip on shoulder,
  • itching to fight,
  • irritable,
  • antagonistic.
  • combative (adjective)
  • more cussed,
  • more triggerhappy,
  • more gladiatorial,
  • more trigger happy,
  • most gladiatorial,
  • more ructious,
  • strenuous,
  • triggerhappy,
  • most cussed,
  • most trigger-happy,
  • more trigger-happy,
  • most trigger happy,
  • trigger-happy,
  • most triggerhappy,
  • most ructious.
  • disputatious (adjective)
  • more caviling,
  • dissentious,
  • most caviling,
  • most dissentious,
  • more dissentious.
  • fighting (adjective)
  • more brawling,
  • more boxing,
  • more wrestling,
  • most tilting,
  • re solute,
  • more jingoistic,
  • more jousting,
  • more disputative,
  • most boxing,
  • ready fight,
  • more contending,
  • more warmongering,
  • most disputative,
  • most brawling,
  • most warmongering,
  • most sparring,
  • dis putative,
  • more fencing,
  • un-beatable,
  • re-solute,
  • more sparring,
  • most fencing,
  • most jingoistic,
  • more tilting,
  • most wrestling,
  • un beatable,
  • most jousting,
  • more skirmishing,
  • up arms,
  • dis-putative,
  • most contending,
  • fencing,
  • most skirmishing.
  • hostile (adjective)
  • in-hospitable,
  • dis-approving,
  • un kind,
  • most unwelcoming,
  • un sociable,
  • un friendliest,
  • un-friendlier,
  • un-kinder,
  • more ill-disposed,
  • un-sociable,
  • un-favorable,
  • most ill-disposed,
  • un propitious,
  • most anti,
  • more oppugnant,
  • un-friendliest,
  • un-friendly,
  • un friendlier,
  • more illdisposed,
  • more anti,
  • un kindest,
  • more disapproving,
  • un-kind,
  • more unwelcoming,
  • most disapproving,
  • most oppugnant,
  • most illdisposed,
  • un welcoming,
  • most ill disposed,
  • dis approving,
  • un-propitious,
  • un favorable,
  • un-kindest,
  • most opposite,
  • more ill disposed,
  • ill disposed,
  • unpropitious,
  • un sympathetic,
  • illdisposed,
  • un-welcoming,
  • in hospitable,
  • un kinder.
  • militant (adjective)
  • more combating,
  • self assertive,
  • most assertory,
  • most combating,
  • more assertory,
  • selfassertive.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • disputative,
  • hard-shelled,
  • anti,
  • gladiatorial,
  • hard line,
  • have a bone to pick,
  • under arms,
  • resentful,
  • cat-and-dog,
  • repulsive,
  • in arms,
  • militant,
  • aggressive,
  • jousting,
  • have it in for,
  • fighting,
  • Assertory,
  • ready to fight,
  • ill-disposed,
  • vituperous,
  • Oppugnant,
  • unwelcoming,
  • battleful,
  • rebellious,
  • inhumane,
  • ructious,
  • jingoistic,
  • head-strong,
  • warrer,
  • warmongering,
  • martial,
  • have for,
  • ruffianly,
  • warlike,
  • on the outs,
  • scrappy,
  • tough,
  • at loggerheads,
  • hardnosed,
  • ugly,
  • truculent,
  • flipper,
  • hottempered,
  • hostile,
  • quarrelsome,
  • pettish,
  • anarchistic,
  • hardbitten,
  • belligerent,
  • bellicose,
  • hardboiled.
  • quarrelsome (adjective)
  • most cat and dog,
  • most pettish,
  • most cat-and-dog,
  • thin skinned,
  • more cat-and-dog,
  • ex citable,
  • ex-citable,
  • badtempered,
  • cat and dog,
  • more cat and dog,
  • thinskinned,
  • warrest,
  • more pettish,
  • bad tempered.
  • rebellious (adjective)
  • dis obedient,
  • in corrigible,
  • most anarchistic,
  • dis orderly,
  • dis-obedient,
  • most insurrectionary,
  • in tractable,
  • more anarchistic,
  • most sabotaging,
  • individualistic,
  • dis-affected,
  • most rioting,
  • in-corrigible,
  • more insurrectionary,
  • more sabotaging,
  • un-governable,
  • more rioting,
  • dis affected,
  • in-tractable,
  • dis-orderly,
  • dis-loyal,
  • dis loyal.
  • repulsive (adjective)
  • off-putting.
  • tough (adjective)
  • hard bitten,
  • ex-acting,
  • more ruffianly,
  • un manageable,
  • un-bending,
  • hardshelled,
  • in flexible,
  • hard nosed,
  • most hard shelled,
  • un-controllable,
  • hard boiled,
  • more hardshelled,
  • most ruffianly,
  • most hard-shelled,
  • un yielding,
  • un forgiving,
  • unforgiving,
  • hard shelled,
  • un-manageable,
  • un-compromising,
  • more hard shelled,
  • un alterable,
  • un bending,
  • more hard-shelled,
  • un-alterable,
  • un-forgiving,
  • un compromising,
  • in-flexible,
  • un-yielding,
  • ex acting,
  • most hardshelled,
  • hardline,
  • un controllable.
  • truculent (adjective)
  • in human,
  • more invective,
  • in-human,
  • more browbeating,
  • more vituperous,
  • in-humane,
  • co wing,
  • most vituperous,
  • more terrorizing,
  • most invective,
  • more cowing,
  • most cowing,
  • co-wing,
  • most terrorizing,
  • most browbeating.
  • ugly (adjective)
  • most scowling,
  • more scowling,
  • fellest.

• n.

  •
  • contrarian,
  • contrary,
  • volatile,
  • cantankerous.
  •
  • contentious,
  • attack.
  • belligerent (noun)
  • study at belligerent.
  • hard-bitten (noun)
  • hard-bitten.
  • hard-boiled (noun)
  • hard-boiled.
  • litigiousness (noun)
  • controversials,
  • fireeatings,
  • disputatiou,
  • fire eatings,
  • opinionateds,
  • factiou,
  • combatives,
  • touchies,
  • litigiou,
  • salties,
  • fire-eatings,
  • quarrelsomes,
  • contentiou,
  • spikies,
  • pugnaciou.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • Litigiousness,
  • scrappiness,
  • belligerents,
  • scrappies,
  • Contraries.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • combative.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • case-hardened,
  • dissentient,
  • militaristic,
  • cranky,
  • uncut,
  • fiery,
  • enemy,
  • bold,
  • Palestric,
  • inimical,
  • challenging,
  • shrewish,
  • huffish,
  • contumacious,
  • assaultive,
  • divisive,
  • jolting,
  • feisty,
  • unpeaceable,
  • discordant,
  • ferocious,
  • harsh,
  • hotheaded,
  • ill-tempered,
  • quick-tempered,
  • factious,
  • soldierlike,
  • full of fight,
  • Brawly,
  • sanguineous,
  • fight,
  • daring,
  • temperamental,
  • peevish,
  • chauvinistic,
  • headstrong,
  • military,
  • unsmooth,
  • recalcitrant,
  • jingoish,
  • Battling,
  • rude,
  • Polarizing,
  • refractory,
  • dissident,
  • obstreperous,
  • unyielding,
  • ballpark,
  • peppery,
  • sanguinary,
  • bloody,
  • factional,
  • unruly,
  • audacious,
  • grating,
  • rasping,
  • barbarous,
  • cross,
  • surly,
  • Squabbling,
  • litigious,
  • unpacific,
  • wrangling,
  • spunky,
  • soldier,
  • stubborn,
  • crude,
  • dyspeptic,
  • approximative,
  • hardened,
  • touchy,
  • rocky,
  • bloody-minded,
  • disagreeable,
  • jingoist,
  • perverse,
  • gutsy,
  • gravelly,
  • scratchy,
  • mutinous,
  • warring,
  • unfriendly,
  • bickering,
  • snappish,
  • querulous,
  • scathing,
  • rival,
  • savage,
  • raspy,
  • Chippy,
  • partisan,
  • bilious,
  • Restiff,
  • discourteous,
  • Eristic,
  • sullen,
  • agonistic,
  • obstinate,
  • grouchy,
  • Armigerous,
  • feral,
  • self-willed,
  • unpeaceful,
  • competitive,
  • insubordinate,
  • pugilistic,
  • huffy,
  • boisterous,
  • contention,
  • approximate,
  • saber rattling,
  • virulent,
  • fierce,
  • churlish,
  • soldierly,
  • Palestrical,
  • Moodish,
  • bloodthirsty,
  • short-tempered,
  • rowdy,
  • passionate,
  • testy,
  • unpleasant,
  • brazen,
  • nasty,
  • jingo,
  • jumpy,
  • bumpy,
  • bad-tempered,
  • Exceptious,
  • chauvinist,
  • violent,
  • disobedient,
  • captious,
  • jolty,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • fractious.