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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")