Found 2 items, similar to pugnacious.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: pugnacious pugnacious adj 1: tough and callous by virtue of experience [syn: hard-bitten, hard-boiled] 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: rough]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Pugnacious 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]