Search Result：pugnacious
pugnacious 
(TTS Sound)
(TTS Sound)KK Pronunciation
〔 pʌgˋneʃәs 〕
Pronunciation
〔 pʌɡˊneiʃәs 〕
Overview of adj pugnacious
The adj pugnacious has 2 senses
- hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious -- (tough and callous by virtue of experience)
- pugnacious, rough -- (ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men")