Word relationships
Synonyms
rough
Local English word record
pugnacious
ready and able to resort to force or violence- Herman Melville
Practice this wordExamples
- pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance
- they were rough and determined fighting men
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