| 单词 | pugnacious |
| 释义 | pugnacious (once / 5493 pages) adj Pugnacious means ready for a fight. If you're pugnacious, you might find it hard to make friends. On the other hand, you might be a very successful professional boxer one day. Your brother is a pugnacious thug––always ready to use his fists to settle arguments, and he has the strength to do so. That’s the literal sense of pugnacious. You can use pugnacious figuratively, too. When two candidates face off in a debate during a close election, one or the other might be pugnacious. He looks to pick a fight with his opponent and is willing to say almost anything, no matter how outrageous, to make his opponent look bad. WORD FAMILYpugnacious: pugnaciously USAGE EXAMPLESI like the pugnacious stance and useful increase in ground clearance. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) “But of course when they get off-balance sometimes they get more pugnacious,” he said. The Guardian(Dec 22, 2016) Widely viewed as a long shot, with an unconventional campaign featuring raucous rallies and pugnacious tweets, he outlasted 16 Republican rivals. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) 1adj tough and callous by virtue of experience Syn hard-bitten, hard-boiled tough not given to gentleness or sentimentality 2adj ready and able to resort to force or violence " pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville Syn rough aggressive having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends |
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