Synonyms for pugnacity
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : puhg-ney-shuhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : pʌgˈneɪ ʃəs |
Top 10 synonyms for pugnacity
- bad blood
- bellicosity
- belligerence
- belligerency
- bitterness
- boldness
- combativeness
- contentiousness
- detestation
- disaffection
- enmity
- estrangement
- gameness
- grudge
- hardihood
- hatred
- hostility
- ill will
- inimicality
- malevolence
- malice
- mettle
- militance
- militancy
- opposition
- pluck
- pugnaciousness
- rancor
- resentment
- resistance
- spirit
- spite
- spleen
- truculence
- truculency
- unfriendliness
- venom
- virulence
- war
- warpath
Définition of pugnacity
Origin :- c.1600, from Latin pugnacitas "fondness for fighting," from pugnax (genitive pugnacis) "combative" (see pugnacious).
- noun fight
- noun belligerence
- Her expression lost its pugnacity and became sincerely concerned.
- Extract from : « 'Twixt Land & Sea » by Joseph Conrad
- We must defend ourselves, so the instinct of pugnacity is born.
- Extract from : « The Mind and Its Education » by George Herbert Betts
- The 'Mercury' missed his power of organisation, his splendid gift of pugnacity.
- Extract from : « Grey Town » by Gerald Baldwin
- The struggling crowd had lashed his pugnacity and ensanguined his temper.
- Extract from : « The Californians » by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
- Celtic, he thought, from her pugnacity, and her taste in fillets and djibbahs.
- Extract from : « The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. » by John Galsworthy
- There was nothing like the pugnacity of the Kiddy in these years of Prothero's disaster.
- Extract from : « The Creators » by May Sinclair
- This, in a youth not seventeen, urged well for the pugnacity of the man.
- Extract from : « Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy » by Anonymous
- Fear and pugnacity are too apparent in fish to require special proof.
- Extract from : « Animal Intelligence » by George J. Romanes
- Well, tenacity or pugnacity conquered, and I worked on until dusk.
- Extract from : « Tales of Secret Egypt » by Sax Rohmer
- Yet his pugnacity was really foreign to the nature of the man.
- Extract from : « Hugh Miller » by William Keith Leask
Antonyms for pugnacity
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