What is another word for pugnacious?
440 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ pʌɡnˈe͡ɪʃəs], [ pʌɡnˈeɪʃəs], [ p_ʌ_ɡ_n_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_s]
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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) • all (adjective) • argumentative (adjective)- salty,
- spikiest,
- polemic,
- fire-eating,
- opinionated,
- spikier,
- polemical,
- disputatious,
- having a chip on one's shoulder,
- spiky,
- fire eating.
- petulant,
- pushy,
- pushing,
- self-assertive,
- irascible,
- choleric,
- defiant,
- argumentative,
- brawling,
- hot-tempered,
- chip on shoulder,
- itching to fight,
- irritable,
- antagonistic.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
n.
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- contentious,
- attack.
Other synonyms:
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- combative.
- 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.
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