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pugnaciousadjective feeling or displaying eagerness to fighta movie reviewer who is spirited, even pugnacious, when defending her opinions aggressive, agonistic, argumentative, assaultive, bellicose, belligerent, brawly, chippy, combative, confrontational, contentious, discordant, disputatious, feisty, gladiatorial, militant, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike antagonistic, fierce, hostile, hot-temperedacidic, bearish, bilious, bristly, choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, disagreeable, dyspeptic, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, rude, snappish, snappy, stroppy(British), surly, testy, touchy, ugly, waspishsavage, viciousbattling, fighting, warring on the warpath nonaggressive, nonbelligerent, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, unbelligerent, uncombative, uncontentious anti-imperialist, antimilitarist, unwarlikeaffable, amiable, amicable, benevolent, complaisant, conciliatory, cordial, easygoing, friendly, genial, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, ingratiating, kindhearted, obliging, pleasant, sociablecalm, quiet, relaxed, serene, tranquilbenign, gentle, kindly, mild belligerent, bellicose, pugnacious, quarrelsome, contentious mean having an aggressive or fighting attitude.belligerent often implies being actually at war or engaged in hostilities.belligerent nations bellicose suggests a disposition to fight.a drunk in a bellicose mood pugnacious suggests a disposition that takes pleasure in personal combat.a pugnacious gangster quarrelsome stresses an ill-natured readiness to fight without good cause.the heat made us all quarrelsome contentious implies perverse and irritating fondness for arguing and quarreling.wearied by his contentious disposition in 1642 |