Definition of pugnacious in English:

pugnacious

adjective pʌɡˈneɪʃəspəɡˈneɪʃəs

Eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight.
his public statements became increasingly pugnacious
Example sentencesExamples
- A catfight breaks out between restless, wilful Miss Braund and her pugnacious chaperone, Mrs Hammond, ending with a slap from the hostess, the hatchet-faced Mrs Rogers.
- Bass being pugnacious and aggressive creatures by nature, the take is often a very violent affair.
- What a way to go for the most pugnacious, aggressive Liberal minister I've seen in action.
- The milquetoast types of New Labour never come off well when they try to act like self-styled pugnacious political heavyweights.
- After seven months as a mostly low-profile attorney general, he re-emerged as a pugnacious, crusading politician, fully in keeping with his past as one of the Senate's most passionately conservative members.
- As is well known, the robin is pugnacious, fighting with its own kind and attacking other birds.
- There's nothing - absolutely nothing - that the pugnacious little Dubliner likes better than standing centre stage, dodging the brickbats.
- The adult males are extremely pugnacious and fight fiercely with one another.
- A pugnacious, charismatic figure, the potentially dicey situation he is facing at Rangers is small beer in comparison to the personal trauma he has overcome through sheer force of will.
- Her other abiding passion came in the form of a pugnacious Labour politician, nicknamed ‘The Butcher’ for his savage attacks on the SNP.
- They absorbed a lot of pressure, their back four, hard-working and combative in face of opponents who were persistent and pugnacious.
- The interviewer got nowhere with trying to manipulate or trip up the pugnacious trial lawyer turned politician.
- Enthusiastic is one word that works, driven is another that can be recommended, there's pugnacious of course, and yet the best one might be ‘expert’.
- His life was one of varied and significant achievements - an advocate at the Scottish bar, a sound if impatient and pugnacious judge of the Court of Session, and a politically active Whig.
- According to my bird book, bulbuls are pugnacious, and are still used as contestants in bulbul fights.
- A pugnacious manager opens the door and leads us to a living room filled with people - Palmer's son and daughter, his wife, and the man himself, looking dapper in brown leather shoes and a blue Savile Row shirt.
- He had a walking stick and his whole manner was so pugnacious and focused.
- The pugnacious, charismatic hectoring figure shown in his full glory on television in recent days also remains a prime candidate to host a similarly hard-hitting political talk show.
- Has the world's most pugnacious advocate for the world's poor, a man who almost single-handedly brought the appalling images of famine-struck Africa into the front rooms of millions of Britons, finally gone too far?
- He was an outspoken advocate of law reform, a pugnacious critic of established political doctrines like natural law and contractarianism, and the first to produce a utilitarian justification for democracy.
Synonyms
combative, aggressive, antagonistic, belligerent, bellicose, warlike, quarrelsome, argumentative, contentious, disputatious, defiant, hostile, threatening, truculent
irascible, fiery, hot-tempered, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, rough

Derivatives

pugnaciously

adverbpʌɡˈneɪʃəslipəɡˈneɪʃəsli

But Stacey pugnaciously defends his bandmate.
Example sentencesExamples
- She would bark pugnaciously - a throaty howl almost like a mating cry - whenever she got a hint of their presence, even if they just whispered too loud at the window.
- ‘My Times,’ by contrast, is the work of a journalistic fugitive with nothing to lose, a man pugnaciously determined to go down swinging.
- Sometimes it brought Republicans into the administration, sometimes it tried to show that it could talk as pugnaciously as the Republicans; neither worked.
- There it was: a shiny black, three-ton hulk of metal squatting pugnaciously on the narrow beach road near my parents' home.

pugnaciousness

noun

pugnacity

noun pʌɡˈnasɪtipəɡˈnæsədi

His pugnacity in defense of his liberal instincts is obviously genuine.
Example sentencesExamples
- He believes his character transition has been for the best and maintains that he was unable to channel his pugnacity positively, rendering it a hindrance rather than a help.
- Thus absolute fidelity can develop from affection, but on the other hand, aggressiveness and a tendency to bite can also develop from courage and pugnacity.
- This is perhaps because they give a kind of vicarious satisfaction to the pugnacity inherent in all of us.
- Its inhabitants are known for their pugnacity, as well as for their tradition of hospitality.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin pugnax, pugnac- (from pugnare 'to fight', from pugnus 'fist') + -ious.

poignant from Late Middle English:
Something that makes you feel a keen sense of sadness or regret can be described as poignant. This comes from an Old French word that meant ‘pricking’ and derived from Latin pungere, ‘to prick’. Back in the Middle Ages you could describe a weapon as poignant, meaning that it had a sharp point. The word could also be applied to sharp tastes or smells, as in ‘a poignant sauce’ or ‘a poignant scent’. This sense is now covered by the related word pungent (late 16th century), which originally meant ‘very painful or distressing’ and at one time could also mean ‘telling or convincing’, as in Samuel Pepys's reference to ‘a very good and pungent sermon’. The slim dagger called a poinard (mid 16th century) may look as if it should be related, particularly as it is often spelt with a ‘g’ in early texts. However, this illustrates the danger of jumping to conclusions in etymologies. It gets its name from the fact that it is held in the fist, from Latin pugnus ‘fist’. This is also the source, via pugnare ‘to fight’, of pugnacious (mid 17th century). See also point

Rhymes

Athanasius, audacious, bodacious, cactaceous, capacious, carbonaceous, contumacious, Cretaceous, curvaceous, disputatious, edacious, efficacious, fallacious, farinaceous, flirtatious, foliaceous, fugacious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, Ignatius, loquacious, mendacious, mordacious, ostentatious, perspicacious, pertinacious, rapacious, sagacious, salacious, saponaceous, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, spacious, tenacious, veracious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious

Definition of pugnacious in US English:

pugnacious

adjectivepəɡˈnāSHəspəɡˈneɪʃəs

Eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight.
his public statements became increasingly pugnacious
Example sentencesExamples
- The interviewer got nowhere with trying to manipulate or trip up the pugnacious trial lawyer turned politician.
- Has the world's most pugnacious advocate for the world's poor, a man who almost single-handedly brought the appalling images of famine-struck Africa into the front rooms of millions of Britons, finally gone too far?
- The adult males are extremely pugnacious and fight fiercely with one another.
- There's nothing - absolutely nothing - that the pugnacious little Dubliner likes better than standing centre stage, dodging the brickbats.
- A pugnacious manager opens the door and leads us to a living room filled with people - Palmer's son and daughter, his wife, and the man himself, looking dapper in brown leather shoes and a blue Savile Row shirt.
- Enthusiastic is one word that works, driven is another that can be recommended, there's pugnacious of course, and yet the best one might be ‘expert’.
- He was an outspoken advocate of law reform, a pugnacious critic of established political doctrines like natural law and contractarianism, and the first to produce a utilitarian justification for democracy.
- After seven months as a mostly low-profile attorney general, he re-emerged as a pugnacious, crusading politician, fully in keeping with his past as one of the Senate's most passionately conservative members.
- The milquetoast types of New Labour never come off well when they try to act like self-styled pugnacious political heavyweights.
- His life was one of varied and significant achievements - an advocate at the Scottish bar, a sound if impatient and pugnacious judge of the Court of Session, and a politically active Whig.
- As is well known, the robin is pugnacious, fighting with its own kind and attacking other birds.
- He had a walking stick and his whole manner was so pugnacious and focused.
- A catfight breaks out between restless, wilful Miss Braund and her pugnacious chaperone, Mrs Hammond, ending with a slap from the hostess, the hatchet-faced Mrs Rogers.
- Bass being pugnacious and aggressive creatures by nature, the take is often a very violent affair.
- According to my bird book, bulbuls are pugnacious, and are still used as contestants in bulbul fights.
- Her other abiding passion came in the form of a pugnacious Labour politician, nicknamed ‘The Butcher’ for his savage attacks on the SNP.
- What a way to go for the most pugnacious, aggressive Liberal minister I've seen in action.
- The pugnacious, charismatic hectoring figure shown in his full glory on television in recent days also remains a prime candidate to host a similarly hard-hitting political talk show.
- A pugnacious, charismatic figure, the potentially dicey situation he is facing at Rangers is small beer in comparison to the personal trauma he has overcome through sheer force of will.
- They absorbed a lot of pressure, their back four, hard-working and combative in face of opponents who were persistent and pugnacious.
Synonyms
combative, aggressive, antagonistic, belligerent, bellicose, warlike, quarrelsome, argumentative, contentious, disputatious, defiant, hostile, threatening, truculent

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin pugnax, pugnac- (from pugnare ‘to fight’, from pugnus ‘fist’) + -ious.

单词	pugnacious
释义	Definition of pugnacious in English: pugnacious adjective pʌɡˈneɪʃəspəɡˈneɪʃəs Eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight. his public statements became increasingly pugnacious Example sentencesExamples A catfight breaks out between restless, wilful Miss Braund and her pugnacious chaperone, Mrs Hammond, ending with a slap from the hostess, the hatchet-faced Mrs Rogers. Bass being pugnacious and aggressive creatures by nature, the take is often a very violent affair. What a way to go for the most pugnacious, aggressive Liberal minister I've seen in action. The milquetoast types of New Labour never come off well when they try to act like self-styled pugnacious political heavyweights. After seven months as a mostly low-profile attorney general, he re-emerged as a pugnacious, crusading politician, fully in keeping with his past as one of the Senate's most passionately conservative members. As is well known, the robin is pugnacious, fighting with its own kind and attacking other birds. There's nothing - absolutely nothing - that the pugnacious little Dubliner likes better than standing centre stage, dodging the brickbats. The adult males are extremely pugnacious and fight fiercely with one another. A pugnacious, charismatic figure, the potentially dicey situation he is facing at Rangers is small beer in comparison to the personal trauma he has overcome through sheer force of will. Her other abiding passion came in the form of a pugnacious Labour politician, nicknamed ‘The Butcher’ for his savage attacks on the SNP. They absorbed a lot of pressure, their back four, hard-working and combative in face of opponents who were persistent and pugnacious. The interviewer got nowhere with trying to manipulate or trip up the pugnacious trial lawyer turned politician. Enthusiastic is one word that works, driven is another that can be recommended, there's pugnacious of course, and yet the best one might be ‘expert’. His life was one of varied and significant achievements - an advocate at the Scottish bar, a sound if impatient and pugnacious judge of the Court of Session, and a politically active Whig. According to my bird book, bulbuls are pugnacious, and are still used as contestants in bulbul fights. A pugnacious manager opens the door and leads us to a living room filled with people - Palmer's son and daughter, his wife, and the man himself, looking dapper in brown leather shoes and a blue Savile Row shirt. He had a walking stick and his whole manner was so pugnacious and focused. The pugnacious, charismatic hectoring figure shown in his full glory on television in recent days also remains a prime candidate to host a similarly hard-hitting political talk show. Has the world's most pugnacious advocate for the world's poor, a man who almost single-handedly brought the appalling images of famine-struck Africa into the front rooms of millions of Britons, finally gone too far? He was an outspoken advocate of law reform, a pugnacious critic of established political doctrines like natural law and contractarianism, and the first to produce a utilitarian justification for democracy. Synonyms combative, aggressive, antagonistic, belligerent, bellicose, warlike, quarrelsome, argumentative, contentious, disputatious, defiant, hostile, threatening, truculent irascible, fiery, hot-tempered, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, rough Derivatives pugnaciously adverbpʌɡˈneɪʃəslipəɡˈneɪʃəsli But Stacey pugnaciously defends his bandmate. Example sentencesExamples She would bark pugnaciously - a throaty howl almost like a mating cry - whenever she got a hint of their presence, even if they just whispered too loud at the window. ‘My Times,’ by contrast, is the work of a journalistic fugitive with nothing to lose, a man pugnaciously determined to go down swinging. Sometimes it brought Republicans into the administration, sometimes it tried to show that it could talk as pugnaciously as the Republicans; neither worked. There it was: a shiny black, three-ton hulk of metal squatting pugnaciously on the narrow beach road near my parents' home. pugnaciousness noun pugnacity noun pʌɡˈnasɪtipəɡˈnæsədi His pugnacity in defense of his liberal instincts is obviously genuine. Example sentencesExamples He believes his character transition has been for the best and maintains that he was unable to channel his pugnacity positively, rendering it a hindrance rather than a help. Thus absolute fidelity can develop from affection, but on the other hand, aggressiveness and a tendency to bite can also develop from courage and pugnacity. This is perhaps because they give a kind of vicarious satisfaction to the pugnacity inherent in all of us. Its inhabitants are known for their pugnacity, as well as for their tradition of hospitality. Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin pugnax, pugnac- (from pugnare 'to fight', from pugnus 'fist') + -ious. poignant from Late Middle English: Something that makes you feel a keen sense of sadness or regret can be described as poignant. This comes from an Old French word that meant ‘pricking’ and derived from Latin pungere, ‘to prick’. Back in the Middle Ages you could describe a weapon as poignant, meaning that it had a sharp point. The word could also be applied to sharp tastes or smells, as in ‘a poignant sauce’ or ‘a poignant scent’. This sense is now covered by the related word pungent (late 16th century), which originally meant ‘very painful or distressing’ and at one time could also mean ‘telling or convincing’, as in Samuel Pepys's reference to ‘a very good and pungent sermon’. The slim dagger called a poinard (mid 16th century) may look as if it should be related, particularly as it is often spelt with a ‘g’ in early texts. However, this illustrates the danger of jumping to conclusions in etymologies. It gets its name from the fact that it is held in the fist, from Latin pugnus ‘fist’. This is also the source, via pugnare ‘to fight’, of pugnacious (mid 17th century). See also point Rhymes Athanasius, audacious, bodacious, cactaceous, capacious, carbonaceous, contumacious, Cretaceous, curvaceous, disputatious, edacious, efficacious, fallacious, farinaceous, flirtatious, foliaceous, fugacious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, Ignatius, loquacious, mendacious, mordacious, ostentatious, perspicacious, pertinacious, rapacious, sagacious, salacious, saponaceous, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, spacious, tenacious, veracious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious Definition of pugnacious in US English: pugnacious adjectivepəɡˈnāSHəspəɡˈneɪʃəs Eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight. his public statements became increasingly pugnacious Example sentencesExamples The interviewer got nowhere with trying to manipulate or trip up the pugnacious trial lawyer turned politician. Has the world's most pugnacious advocate for the world's poor, a man who almost single-handedly brought the appalling images of famine-struck Africa into the front rooms of millions of Britons, finally gone too far? The adult males are extremely pugnacious and fight fiercely with one another. There's nothing - absolutely nothing - that the pugnacious little Dubliner likes better than standing centre stage, dodging the brickbats. A pugnacious manager opens the door and leads us to a living room filled with people - Palmer's son and daughter, his wife, and the man himself, looking dapper in brown leather shoes and a blue Savile Row shirt. Enthusiastic is one word that works, driven is another that can be recommended, there's pugnacious of course, and yet the best one might be ‘expert’. He was an outspoken advocate of law reform, a pugnacious critic of established political doctrines like natural law and contractarianism, and the first to produce a utilitarian justification for democracy. After seven months as a mostly low-profile attorney general, he re-emerged as a pugnacious, crusading politician, fully in keeping with his past as one of the Senate's most passionately conservative members. The milquetoast types of New Labour never come off well when they try to act like self-styled pugnacious political heavyweights. His life was one of varied and significant achievements - an advocate at the Scottish bar, a sound if impatient and pugnacious judge of the Court of Session, and a politically active Whig. As is well known, the robin is pugnacious, fighting with its own kind and attacking other birds. He had a walking stick and his whole manner was so pugnacious and focused. A catfight breaks out between restless, wilful Miss Braund and her pugnacious chaperone, Mrs Hammond, ending with a slap from the hostess, the hatchet-faced Mrs Rogers. Bass being pugnacious and aggressive creatures by nature, the take is often a very violent affair. According to my bird book, bulbuls are pugnacious, and are still used as contestants in bulbul fights. Her other abiding passion came in the form of a pugnacious Labour politician, nicknamed ‘The Butcher’ for his savage attacks on the SNP. What a way to go for the most pugnacious, aggressive Liberal minister I've seen in action. The pugnacious, charismatic hectoring figure shown in his full glory on television in recent days also remains a prime candidate to host a similarly hard-hitting political talk show. A pugnacious, charismatic figure, the potentially dicey situation he is facing at Rangers is small beer in comparison to the personal trauma he has overcome through sheer force of will. They absorbed a lot of pressure, their back four, hard-working and combative in face of opponents who were persistent and pugnacious. Synonyms combative, aggressive, antagonistic, belligerent, bellicose, warlike, quarrelsome, argumentative, contentious, disputatious, defiant, hostile, threatening, truculent Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin pugnax, pugnac- (from pugnare ‘to fight’, from pugnus ‘fist’) + -ious.
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