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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. tough and callous by virtue of experience;
[syn: hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious]

2. ready and able to resort to force or violence;
- Example: "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville
- Example: "they were rough and determined fighting men"
[syn: pugnacious, rough]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pugnacious \Pug*na"cious\, a. [L. pugnax, -acis, fr. pugnare to
   fight. Cf. Pugilism, Fist.]
   Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome;
   fighting. --Pug*na"cious*ly, adv. -- Pug*na"cious*ness,
   n.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pugnacious
    adj 1: tough and callous by virtue of experience [syn: hard-
           bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious]
    2: 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" [syn: pugnacious, rough]