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termagant
adjective as in fighting
Strong matches
adjective as in overbearing
adjective as in shrewish
adjective as in turbulent
Weak matches
- agitated
- anarchic
- angry
- boisterous
- demonstrative
- destructive
- disorderly
- excited
- fiery
- foaming
- insubordinate
- mutinous
- obstreperous
- passionate
- perturbed
- rabid
- rambunctious
- rampant
- refractory
- riotous
- roughhouse
- rude
- seditious
- shaking
- stern
- storming
- unbridled
- uncontrolled
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- untamed
- uproarious
- vehement
- vociferous
- wild
noun as in battle-ax
noun as in hag
noun as in shrew
Example Sentences
James Flexner went so far as to call her a "termagant."
It was someone laying down the law — without worrying that a man would label her a virago or harridan or termagant.
Lorena wasn’t just any fury wronged by a man but a hot-blooded Latin termagant.
In contrast, Trump in the White House, judging from both Woodward and the Times op-ed, is the same arrogant, ignorant and cruel termagant who displayed all his ugly impulses daily on television in 2016.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘A tough little termagant in a pantsuit’ … making a visit to Australia as US secretary of state in 2010.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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