PUGNACIOUS Synonyms

• arousing animosity or hostility

• used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect

• indicating opposition or resistance

• characterized by antagonism or antipathy

• incapable of harmonious association

• given to or characterized by argument

• having or showing a ready disposition to fight

• someone who fights (or is fighting)

• characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

• engaged in war

• inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits

• striving to overcome in argument

• having or showing a ready disposition to fight

• of or relating to confrontation

• inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits

• involving or likely to cause controversy

• showing courage

• quick to take offense

• characterized by enmity or ill will

• not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally

• troops belonging to the enemy's military forces

• impossible to bring into friendly accord

• very unfavorable to life or growth

• unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)

• quickly aroused to anger

• characterized by anger

• a militant reformer

• disposed to warfare or hard-line policies

• showing a fighting disposition

• engaged in war

• given to quarreling

• defiantly aggressive

• disposed to warfare or hard-line policies

• suggesting war or military life

• tough and callous by virtue of experience

• tough and callous by virtue of experience

• used of persons; emotionally hardened

• (eggs) cooked until the yolk is solid

• having or caused by an irregular surface

• of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• not shaped by cutting or trimming

• the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

• with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

• with rough motion as over a rough surface

• (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse

• not quite exact or correct

• full of hardship or trials

• violently agitated and turbulent

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• ready and able to resort to force or violence

• not carefully or expertly made

• not perfected

• unpleasantly stern

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• prepare in preliminary or sketchy form