Choose the synonym for vengeful
- thesaurus
- pugnacious
pugnacious
synonyms for pugnacious
- aggressive
- antagonistic
- argumentative
- bellicose
- brawling
- cantankerous
- chip on shoulder
- choleric
- combative
- contentious
- defiant
- disputatious
- have a bone to pick
- hot-tempered
- irascible
- irritable
- itching to fight
- militant
- petulant
- pushing
- pushy
- quarrelsome
- ready to fight
- rebellious
- salty
- scrappy
- self-assertive
- truculent
- warlike
See also synonyms for: pugnaciousnesspugnacity
antonyms for pugnacious
Most relevant
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use pugnacious in a sentence
His tenacity in conducting rigorous experiments and his pugnacious public promotion of his findings established the germ theory of disease and encouraged new methods of hygiene.
This includes a pugnacious grill, menacing headlights and sleek LED taillights.
Rumsfeld was more complex and paradoxical than the public caricature of him as a pugnacious, inflexible villain would suggest.
Donald H. Rumsfeld, influential but controversial Bush defense secretary, dies at 88 | Bradley Graham | June 30, 2021 | Washington Post
It all ended badly last October when Glenn Greenwald, the pugnacious, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, quit the investigative news site he had co-founded six years earlier.
Glenn Greenwald may have quit the Intercept, but he can’t quit the feud | Paul Farhi | May 21, 2021 | Washington PostTo be sure, the pugnacious poet had his moments of assurance.
Two centuries after John Keats’s death, his famous odes are still sparking new discussions | Troy Jollimore | February 25, 2021 | Washington PostHe said that on the whole he got a better reception from Republicans, especially the pugnacious Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).
Joe Sutter is 93 now, silver-haired and moving a tad more slowly than he would like, but still pugnacious and sharp of tongue.
He is a pugnacious writer and speaker himself, well used to picking intellectual fights.
And typically, the pugnacious New Jerseyan refuses to back away.
A Thinner Chris Christie Still Faces Big Political Challenges | Robert Shrum | May 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAn early Zionist leader, prideful, pugnacious, Ussishkin headed the Jewish National Fund for nearly 20 years.
Yeshayahu Leibowitz Is Not The Name Of A Street | Gershom Gorenberg | April 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTSupported by Thurstane's pugnacious presence and hurried up by his vehement orders, they began to fire.
Overland | John William De ForestHe had never, in all his pugnacious and sanguinary life, looked upon anything so fascinating.
Overland | John William De ForestIt was not the headlong, reckless, pugnacious rage of the old Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian berserker.
Overland | John William De Forest"Get about your own business and leave us alone," advised the pugnacious chap.
Frank Merriwell's Pursuit | Burt L. StandishThe Scotch are certainly a most pugnacious people; their whole history proves it.
Lavengro | George Borrow
Synonym of the Day
Browse